It’s not that they are the worst paid in society, but there’s a huge gulf between their expectations and today’s reality

After four tense days when you could almost feel the NHS holding its breath, striking junior doctors are preparing to return to the wards.

But the relief, such as it is for anyone who cares about the NHS, is only temporary. This week’s planned stoppage may be ending but the strike very much is not. And judging by the increasingly personal nature of political briefings against the British Medical Associations’s young turks, if anything the two sides in this dispute look further apart than ever. And, worryingly, they seem to be separated by something more than money.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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