Sounds like a good deal to me. Get sick, don't get paid. Awesome.
So 100 years of social revolution and workers rights have now become meaningless? Cool.
Pilots. Being mind numbingly stupid since 1999.
£48K a year. If you have Dr. friends on less than that, then they must be working for an aid agency as volunteers. I've got friends who work as part time GP's who earn more than that for 2 1/2 days a week.