Just what is it with some of the people in the medical profession. Not content with doing their job of curing illness and offering advice they have over the last few years teamed up with the many petty pen pushing jobsworths in government to dictate on peoples lifestyle choices.
If its not advice on drinking, its the classic demon of the fags, then every so often one of them will whitter on about how lardy folk should be barred from the NHS until they lose a few pounds(all for their own good of course).
The BMA which since 1982 has campaigned for a ban on boxing, has now turned its attention to extreme mixed martial arts.
Doctors are not calling for a ban on sports such as karate, but instead want to see the end of "brutal" events like cage fighting
Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said: "Ultimate fighting can be extremely brutal and has been described as 'human cockfighting'. It can cause traumatic brain injury, joint injuries and fractures.
And so that is where Dr Nathanson would come in, her job is to patch up people not to attempt to dictate peoples lifestyle choices.
The BMA said there had been only one reported death in mixed martial arts since it emerged in the early 1990s.
Yep just one death, I am sure more people get killed crossing the road each day than take part in these extreme sports. Maybe Dr Nathanson and co should campaign with the unwashed tree hugging hippie eco-fascist scum in banning the so called evils of the motorcar.
A spokesman for the Ultimate Fighting Championship said the allegations were "absolute nonsense".
"There have been no serious injuries in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The worst case there has been was a broken arm.
"Sports such as rugby, Formula One and horse riding have more injuries. The death in 1998 was little more than an organised bar fight, it was not an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout.
"There are stringent rules in our fights and we have doctors on the sidelines. The BMA criticism is without foundation."Maybe we need the BMA to put its own house in order and stop doctors talking down to the people of this nation like they are children, after all we elect politicians to do that.
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Doctors should be able to voice their opinions, but that should be the extent of it. People are stupid. If they want to do stupid things, then it should be their personal choice.
Here in the US we have seen many children injured and even killed, riding 4-wheelers. Doctors have spoken out against allowing children to use these dangerous things, but that's it. Voicing their opinion that they are dangerous.
Well, in reality the children are not mature enough to know how to handle those 4-wheelers. Their parents should now allow them to ride them, but making another new law should NOT happen.
Agreed, just wish the meddlers in the BMA would see things that way.
Perhaps somebody needs to point out the number of deaths caused per year by doctor's mistakes?
They sure as hell far exceed the number of deaths caused by martial arts.
Good point, maybe the case of a certain Harold Shipman MD, who killed a couple of hundred old folk.
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