The UK has a serious shortage of doctors. The Royal College of Physicians recently warned patients to start expecting nurses and less qualified medics to begin assuming the role of “doctor” for patients. Yet, Dr. David Mackereth, who has worked in the emergency ward for 26-years was fired for refusing to tow the politically correct line of the hard-left.

According to the Daily Mail – Dr. David Mackereth’s 26-year medical career hasn’t been jeopardized by endless, grueling, night shifts.

Nor have the life and death decisions he has made on emergency wards for decades put him off his profession.

It was, in the end, his response to an instruction in a nondescript training room that has left his future hanging in the balance.

After being offered a job as a medical assessor for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), David was told to refer to those seeking disability allowance as whatever gender they requested.

So, should a man have walked into his office claiming he was a woman, he would need to be treated as such, and described in any correspondence with the pronoun ‘she’ not ‘he’.

In an age in which the Government and the NHS are subjecting transgender issues to ever greater scrutiny, it was an edict that David had been dreading — and one the 55-year-old was unwilling to obey.

‘As a Christian, I believe gender is determined biologically and genetically,’ he says.

He was also very aware that expressing such a belief would be likely to end his career.

‘I was scared, really frightened,’ he admits. ‘I knew it could be the end of my work as a doctor, but I could not live with myself if I didn’t speak up. It would be dishonest — and I didn’t want to live a lie.’

Sure enough, his contract with the DWP was swiftly terminated on the grounds that his refusal to use the preferred pronouns of people who identify as the opposite gender could be considered harassment as defined by the 2010 Equality Act. Three weeks on, he is in little doubt that his career is over.

‘I can’t get a job with any other Government department — doors will be slammed in my face — and I don’t think the NHS will employ me again,’ he says.

‘I am hurt, but relieved I said what I said because I believe with all my heart that God made us male and female and that I should be allowed to believe this.’

His strong opinions on one of the most divisive subjects of our times are, he insists, not the only issue here. What is also at stake is our right to say what we think without risking our jobs.

‘It is not a question of whether we agree or disagree but whether we are free to say so,’ he says.

‘I’m not out to upset anyone. I care deeply about transgender people. But we must be able to say what we think and defend what we believe in a non-combative way. Otherwise, we will turn into a dictatorial state in which we are all enslaved.’

Only two days ago, the Royal College of Physicians announced that due to a lack of doctors, that nurses and less-qualified medics would be assuming the role of doctor for patients in the UK. 

The Royal College of Physicians said an NHS workforce crisis means there are ‘nowhere near enough’ doctors to fill the gaps.-Daily Mail

So, here’s a great idea…Why don’t they start firing qualified doctors who have worked for 26 years in the field of medicine because their views aren’t consistent with the hard-left?