Grieving relative: Stop playing God with people’s live

LOOKING shamefaced, two junior doctors stand helplessly as the relative of a dead patient furiously accuses them of ‘playing God with people’s lives’.

Stephen Minister had stopped to politely challenge a group of striking medics over their walkout.

But when one smirked at him, he lost his rag.

In an outburst captured on camera, he shouted: ‘I think you should be disgusted with yourselves. You swore a Hippocratic Oath to protect people’s lives – not to spit your dummy out and come out here.’

The 53-year-old had been driving past Lincoln County Hospital – where 230 appointments were cancelled – when he spotted around 20 strikers waving placards and decided to take them to task.

He reminded them of their duty of care, but saw red when one allegedly pulled a face as he told how his sister died from brain can- cer because, he claimed, doctors had ignored her symptoms.

Mr Minister accused them of being egged on by ‘Corbyn’s cronies’ and bullied by trade unions who were bringing back the ‘dark days of the Seventies’.

Speaking from his bungalow near Lincoln yesterday, Mr Minister said: ‘I told them that I did not think what they were doing was right, as all the appointments that had been cancelled for patients meant they would have to wait longer and pos- sible interventions for life-threatening conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease would take longer for those people.

‘I explained that my sister, some years ago, went to her doctor who told her not to pester him because there was nothing wrong with her. Months later she died from a terminal brain tumour at 44.

‘One of the junior doctors moved forward and just smirked at me. I saw red and told him a few home truths.’ Mr Minister, who is unem-