COMPASSION has given way to cruelty. Service has been replaced by selfishness. The escalating strike by resident doctors — signalled by the start of yet another five-day walkout today — will not only cause real harm to the NHS but will also inflict permanent damage on the reputation of the medical profession. Never in the often embittered history of British industrial relations has there been a dispute that was less justified than this bout of miserable Marxist militancy. The British Medical Association, which is meant to be a serious representative body for doctors, has now become this decade’s equivalent of...