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Tania Russof

It will be before tax but there are also allowances for expenses. One doctor found he was on £350 000 a year because of his situation (being in charge of 3 Scottish islands) Malpractice claims are rare and are borne by the NHS unless there are good reasons why the practitioner should pay (eg...

Unfortunately you would go backwards very quickly if you did :-)

In the UK the average income of a ****** (general practice) doctor is about $250 000 a year although some make more than twice that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4920692.stm

And don't forget your premium rises with the risk.When young and healthy there's no problem-premiums are low and you probably don't need much anyway.When problems develop you pay more. Our system equalises the good and bad times. My wife has chronic arthritis and needs continuous medication and...

Hardly futuristic, it's a development of the linear induction motor I saw demonstrated in the 60s by Eric Laithwaite. His first patent (1948) was to use this system to propel a shuttle across a loom.He won a contract to design a space launcher for NASA in 1997 but died a month later.

As a chemistry student way back in the mists of time I was taught that modern chemistry was to a large extent the result of looking at plant remedies , isolating the active constituents and if possible to improve them. So salicylic acid from willow bark became improved as aspirin. Quinine is the...

Although I consider myself to be well right of centre politically I have grown up in a country with "free" health care to all and I am a great believer in it.That's because it works well and efficiently-we get more treatment for our bucks than an insurance based service can possibly provide.

The time scale for interstellar travel is just too vast ; the universe has so many bodies in it that the probability of anyone choosing here even if they overcame the time problem is infinitessimally small , you couldn't even see Earth from most stars. If they really had landed we wouldn't be...

The word is phenomenon.Phenomena is the plural form.

Going back a bit ; Tania Russof

Problem with insurance is that it's risk based.Most of the posters in this forum are youngish and in fair health.But as you get older the risk rises and so do the premiums.If you have a chronic illness you might be struggling to get cover at all. Many posters take the view that it's a person's...

Humans do have some effect but not a major one despite what the global warming industry says.For the last million years the climate has alternately warmed and cooled and we are now towards the top (but not quite) of a warming cycle , exactly in keeping with the cycle.The CO2 model is too...

If you want to get rich the trick is to steal from the rich, it won't work if you steal from the poor because they have nothing!

It will take a lot of $25s to add up to $10 billion plus the rolling interest charges.At 5% the interest alone would need 20 million journeys a year, then there's the capital to pay off and perhaps then there might be some profit.......unless it requires maintenance and repairs.and people to run...

In other words-pull up the ladder , I'm all right Jack. The country was created by masses of people coming in from overseas taking what they wanted with scant regard for those already in possession.They made on the whole a good job of it but perhaps they should remember how it all started...

May Day is a public holiday in the UK.

The greatness of America lies with their immigrants. Vast numbers of them arrived, largely from Europe, penniless but in search of the American ***** (the expression came from the hopes and aspirations of immigrants).at the time they too were accused of stealing jobs because they would work for...

Easy way to get a 10 inch one is to fold it in half.

If you own two stocks you can truthfully say you don't own one single one. But politicians telling untruths? That can't be possible can it?

The double slit experiment was thought up by Thomas Young in 1803! He was a Scottish genius who dabbled in all sorts of areas-Young's modulus is still widely used in materials science and engineering and he even went on to decipher the Rosetta Stone...

The UK moved out of manufacturing a while ago and has prospered ever since.It's a thing called relative advantage and at the moment the Chinese are able to ship finished goods at about the price we pay for the raw materials.So who is going to buy UK or US made items when a similar item from...

I bet the Native Americans think this talk of ******* immigrants is highly amusing.

I don't think there is generally any justification for ******* anyone whether civilian or otherwise. In wartime Fred Bloggs may be called up into the ****** or might work in a munitions factory. Either way he is directly contributing to the war effort.But it is OK to **** him if he's in uniform...

Dresden has become controversial since the war but was not, I believe at the time.It was intended to interrupt the flow of the German ****** to the Eastern Front . There were many casualties but far fewer than some would have us believe. The history of the bombing campaign is interesting;at the...

I thought this expression had died out with the USSR and the Cold War.Never heard of the Pax Britannica? World War 2 was total war , nation against nation where survival was at stake.In retrospect it all seems so stupid and unnecessary; as one who grew up just after it I caught a glimpse of the...

It seems to me that the objection to socialised medicine is that it's socialised.This is a bit like not ******** water because fish **** in it ie letting doctrine get in the way of common sense.Europe has socialised medicine throughout and it works, just as water with fish in it is drinkable.It...

On an overall basis it's probably as fair as is possible.People's situations change throughout their lifetime , when you're young and in full time education you aren't earning , then you get work, then perhaps your job falls through and then you get another job.Then when you retire you aren't...

Isn't this effectively what's happening anyway? The whole point about being rich is that it can buy you advantages. I am very far indeed from being a socialist but there are a few areas where I have to admit that a collective approach is best. Areas such as defence , policing and so on.Medicine...

They were probably aware that something was going to happen but with no specific details on which to act.With hindsight (which is 20/20 vision) perhaps the clues were there but I'm certain that nobody expected anything like that to happen.Neither of course would they have allowed it if they had...

Dear God , any car beats the VW Polo

All money is virtual.Cash is simply paper with numbers written on it or pieces of metal with no intrinsic value.Banks simply use electronic signals.It works very well as long as people have confidence in it but it isn't real money at all.

Not plausible. The bodies like the CIA and the FBI are filled by men and women who are pledged to protect the country. They are overwhelmingly patriotic and well motivated people and any hint of interference in reacting to a threat of this magnitude would be strongly resisted.

The point about all conspiracies is that you've got too many ways they can go wrong.People need to be recruited (and do you really believe the FBI wouldn't be aware of this ?) and then after the event need to keep silent.The scale of what happened is another factor-how did the planners guarantee...

I totally agree. They are a deliberate disfigurement.Why do they (or anybody else) do it ?

We live in a real and not a fantasy world (although smokers who don't believe it to be harmful live in one) With universal education and an intelligent population you would theoretically think that smoking would die out.It is probably the most stupid and unreasoned act most humans ever carry...

I agree with what one of my favourite Playmates said-"I don't shave because I'm a woman not a little girl"..she does trim a little though but I agree with her.Impenetrable undergrowth isn't what I want to see but bald is lacking something.

If you believe that you believe anything.The effects of opium are well documented so don't try to fool yourself. But then they all say "I can handle it"

One thing that may be overlooked is that the best UK sitcoms had good, stable casting.The scriptwriters got to know the actors and wrote to their strengths , they knew how they would play along with the scripts and make the most of any funny lines.You can't work in a vacuum and if you can't...

I only ever visit it to make me glad I don't live there.But so many (particularly younger) people find it very attractive. Apparently it's the richest city in the world with two thirds of all international financial transactions being done there. It has long been considered the best city for...

Yes it was but Reagan realised that it was the right time to apply pressure.Remember that the military budget of the USSR was a crippling proportion of its economy.The US spends a lot on the military of course but most of that is wages which circulates back into the economy.

The Lightning was designed to take off like a rocket and intercept intruders as far away as possible.It's the only aircraft ever to intercept a Concorde by taking off and catching it up.If I remember right it could go from standstill to 50000 feet within 2 minutes.As you say, it was horses for...

I doubt whether even George VI lived as comfortably as most people do today.I can remember from my own ********* how cold it could get in the winter.Central heating was rare before about 1970 and the only source of heating in most houses was a coal fire in a couple of rooms (which went out...

Pity they hadn't still got a Lightning handy! There's still nothing in service anywhere that could keep up with it.

I once met someone who did that and took part in the D Day landings.He was the hardest, toughest man you could imagine but he wouldn't talk about it.And even when taking his ****** to the seaside years later he wouldn't ever go onto the beach.

The world economy has been very benign indeed during the lifetime of the Euro so it really hasn't been tested under any sort of pressure yet. But get a significant recession and the differences between the countries will cause many almost intractable problems. Germany's economy isn't the same...

Economies, like all other systems, work in cycles. Clinton was lucky to get a free ride with excellent world economic conditions.Our own PM, ex Chancellor Gordon Brown somehow thinks our prosperity is his doing ; he was just lucky too. One factor which has been missed is that good men don't...

The fall of the USSR was engineered by Reagan and Thatcher who knew that the Soviet economy couldn't stand the arms race.They just couldn't afford to counter initiatives like Star Wars and the cruise missiles.By the time Gorbachov was in power the USSR was a bust flush;Gorbachov accepted the...

India ia a big omission , over a billion people (and by far the biggest film industry in the world) Anglo Indians are often devastatingly beautiful.

Look what happened to the Marlboro Man