Total mess that combined with the amount of foreign doctors entering the NHS makes you want to scream. Why bother fighting through this system is my new view and fully intend once my F1 year ends in a few months to take up a post have been offered in south africa. Maybe once one of the MMC staff finds one of the slightly bizarre slip people who slipped through the system with at best a rudimentary grap of english treating a loved one they will realise a mistake has been made. Good luck to the NHS!

Patrick Arnold, London,

Is there no end to the insulting way that junior doctors have been treated recently. As if changing the whole face of our training isn't enough, if we don't get a job (through a empolyment system already described as a failure by the government) then we will be shipped off overseas to work for free! I presume the government aren't going to pay our morgages or look after our families financially while we're sent to the other side of the world to work for nothing. As a unit, junior doctors put in more hours to this NHS than nearly anyone else, and this is what we get as a reward!

James Coulston, Swindon, Wiltshire

What is the appeal of studying medicine at the moment? Im a current medical student and the morale in hospitals is depressingly low, from final year students about to enter this farce to the junior staff embroilled in it. Unless drastic change occurs and the idiots who actually believed this was a good idea are held accountable, the only reasonable way to escape this lottery of ending up like the 10000 unfortunate unemployed doctors in august is to emigrate to the US or australia/NZ like so many currently are. Modernising Medical Careers is a cosy little idea with plenty of buzz words and no common sense that appears to have been thought up by people who had to contribute something to policy making to justify a hefty salary.

James Hathaway, Belfast,