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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] From White Coats to Red Politics: Why UK Doctors Are on the March

The BMA isnโ€™t just prescribing medicineโ€”itโ€™s pushing policy.

์˜์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€์šด ๋Œ€์‹  ๋ถ‰์€ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ? ์˜๊ตญ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ๊ธ‰์ง„ํ™”๋Š” ์™œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์กŒ๋‚˜
BMA๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ง„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ์ •์น˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Ž Note
BMA (British Medical Association) is the UKโ€™s main doctorsโ€™ union and professional body. It was founded in 1832 and represents around 160,000 doctors.
โ†’ BMA(์˜๊ตญ์˜์‚ฌํ˜‘ํšŒ)๋Š” ์•ฝ 16๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ ๋…ธ์กฐ์ด์ž ์ „๋ฌธ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1832๋…„์— ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

The British Medical Association (BMA), once seen as a conservative professional guild, has morphed into something more militant. Following years of real-term pay cutsโ€”by its account, down 21% since 2008โ€”doctors have taken to the picket line with renewed fury. From 2023 to 2024 alone, England saw more doctors' strikes than in the entire 75-year history of the NHS. A five-day walkout is set to begin on July 25th.

์˜๊ตญ์˜์‚ฌํ˜‘ํšŒ(BMA)๋Š” ํ•œ๋•Œ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๊ธ‰์ง„์ ์ธ ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ํƒˆ๋ฐ”๊ฟˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2008๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์‹ค์งˆ ์ž„๊ธˆ์ด 21% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2023๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2024๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹จ 2๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง„ ํŒŒ์—… ํšŸ์ˆ˜๋Š” NHS 75๋…„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์›ƒ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š” 7์›” 25์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” 5์ผ๊ฐ„ ํŒŒ์—…์ด ์˜ˆ๊ณ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But this isnโ€™t just about pay. The BMA has become a platform for progressive activism, even debating foreign policy and gender care. While public support for strikes is waning, the unionโ€™s grip on policyโ€”and its transformation into a political forceโ€”is undeniable.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ž„๊ธˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋งŒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. BMA๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์™ธ๊ต์ •์ฑ…๊ณผ ์„ฑ๋ณ„ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์Šˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ •์น˜์  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ํŒŒ์—… ์ง€์ง€์œจ์€ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ •์น˜์„ธ๋ ฅํ™”๋Š” ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Broad Left (๋ธŒ๋กœ๋“œ ๋ ˆํ”„ํŠธ)
    A socialist-aligned faction within the BMA known for radical positions and activist leadership.
    โ†’ ๊ธ‰์ง„์  ์ž…์žฅ๊ณผ ์šด๋™๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹  ์ง€๋„๋ถ€๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ BMA ๋‚ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ณ„ํŒŒ.

  • Real-terms pay cut (์‹ค์งˆ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์‚ญ๊ฐ)
    The decrease in purchasing power of salaries after adjusting for inflation.
    โ†’ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ์‹ค์ œ ์ž„๊ธˆ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ.

  • Medical brain drain (์˜๋ฃŒ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์œ ์ถœ)
    When doctors migrate abroad due to better pay or working conditions.
    โ†’ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ž„๊ธˆ๊ณผ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์—ฌ๊ฑด์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ํ•ด์™ธ๋กœ ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ํ˜„์ƒ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Over the past two years, the BMA has evolved from a traditional professional body into a frontline force for political and labor activism. What makes this shift striking is how rapidly its radicalisation has affected the broader health care ecosystem. Between 2023 and 2024, more than half a million appointments and surgeries were rescheduled due to strike actionsโ€”something unheard of in the NHSโ€™s 75-year history. The BMAโ€™s demand to restore 2008 pay levels, adjusted for inflation, is now framed not merely as a wage issue but as a matter of dignity and institutional survival.

์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„๊ฐ„ BMA๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ฒด์—์„œ ์ •์น˜ ๋ฐ ๋…ธ๋™์šด๋™์˜ ์ „์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ ์€ ๊ทธ ๊ธ‰์ง„ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ฑด์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2023~2024๋…„ ์‚ฌ์ด, ํŒŒ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 50๋งŒ ๊ฑด์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์ง„๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์ด ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” NHS 75๋…„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์œ ๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2008๋…„ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํšŒ๋ณต ์š”๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ โ€˜๊ธ‰์—ฌ ๋ฌธ์ œโ€™๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, โ€˜์กด์—„์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ œ๋„์˜ ์ƒ์กดโ€™์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The unionโ€™s leadership, increasingly dominated by the Broad Left faction, has expanded its remit to include wider political issuesโ€”from Gaza to gender policy. This has led to internal friction: over 1,000 doctors signed a protest letter to oppose the BMAโ€™s softened stance on gender care. Meanwhile, doctors are leaving the NHS in record numbers, citing emotional burnout, long commutes, and lack of career progression. Whether the BMA is saving the NHS or breaking it apart remains a matter of fierce national debate.

BMA๋Š” Broad Left ๊ณ„ํŒŒ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ์•„๋ž˜ ํŒ”๋ ˆ์Šคํƒ€์ธ ๋ถ„์Ÿ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์„ฑ๋ณ„ ์ง„๋ฃŒ ์ •์ฑ…๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์™ธ ์ •์น˜ ์˜์ œ์—๋„ ์ ๊ทน ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๋„ ์ ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ๋ณ„ ์ง„๋ฃŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ(Cass Review) ๊ด€๋ จ ์ž…์žฅ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ํ•ญ์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์„œํ•œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์˜๋ฃŒ ํ˜„์žฅ์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ ์ˆ˜๋„ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ, ์ง„๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์žฌ, ๋ฒˆ์•„์›ƒ์€ ๊ทธ ์›์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. NHS๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ํˆฌ์Ÿ์ธ๊ฐ€, ํ˜น์€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์ธ๊ฐ€โ€”BMA๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์€ ์˜๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์ „๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ Radicalised medics (๊ธ‰์ง„ํ™”๋œ ์˜๋ฃŒ์ธ)
โ€œThe BMA is no longer a doctorsโ€™ guild. Itโ€™s a political engine.โ€
โ†’ BMA๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ •์น˜์  ์—”์ง„์ด๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Strike fatigue (ํŒŒ์—… ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ)
โ€œWith half a million appointments rescheduled, public patience is wearing thin.โ€
โ†’ 50๋งŒ ๊ฑด์˜ ์ง„๋ฃŒ ์ผ์ •์ด ์žฌ์กฐ์ •๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์˜ ์ธ๋‚ด์‹ฌ๋„ ํ•œ๊ณ„์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Burnout to backlash (๋ฒˆ์•„์›ƒ์—์„œ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ)
โ€œWhat began as burnout has become a political backlash.โ€
โ†’ ํƒˆ์ง„์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ •์น˜์  ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Stethoscope socialism (์ฒญ์ง„๊ธฐ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ฃผ์˜)
โ€œThe new BMA leaders wear their stethoscopes like a hammer and sickle.โ€
โ†’ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด BMA ์ง€๋„๋ถ€๋Š” ์ฒญ์ง„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ซ๊ณผ ๋ง์น˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
Mainstream outlets like The Times and Guardian focus on the political turn of the BMA and its split with centrist medical professionals. The Spectator warns of patient risks, while BBC reports rising public fatigue.

ํƒ€์ž„์Šค์™€ ๊ฐ€๋””์–ธ ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ์–ธ๋ก ์€ BMA์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์ „ํ™˜๊ณผ ์ค‘๋„ ์„ฑํ–ฅ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ŠคํŽ™ํ…Œ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ํ™˜์ž ์•ˆ์ „ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. BBC๋Š” ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Britainโ€™s doctors arenโ€™t just treating symptomsโ€”theyโ€™re diagnosing the system.

์ด์ œ ์˜๊ตญ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ง„๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… July 25, 2025 โ€“ Five-day doctorsโ€™ strike to begin in England
๐Ÿ“… 2025๋…„ 7์›” 25์ผ โ€“ ์˜๊ตญ, 5์ผ๊ฐ„ ์˜์‚ฌ ํŒŒ์—… ์‹œ์ž‘ ์˜ˆ์ •

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Junior doctorsโ€™ strikes: what you need to know" (BBC News, 2025)

  • "BMA annual conference backs Gaza motion" (The Guardian, 2024)

  • "The growing divide in UK medical unions" (The Times, 2024)

  • "Strikes are harming patients and public trust" (The Spectator, 2024)

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