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I'm watching 'Sicko' for the first time
Dear America,
I -- WHAT. I mean, I knew it was a ridiculous system, but not that ridiculous.
(I didn't know Hillary Clinton had been pushing for universal healthcare during her husband's presidency. Good on her. And I think I need to reread the details of the recent changes more carefully.)
Also, that British doctor they interviewed was adorable <3 Adorable and loaded. I WANT A JOB IN LONDON AND A HOUSE IN GREENWICH.
...actually, I want to get my British citizenship renewed and then work in France and be a SUPERHERO NINJA DOCTOR in a zippy car who drives around Paris at night.
More seriously -- I think this was a good time for me to watch this documentary, manipulative though it is. I've been feeling kind of demotivated and apathetic as far as my course is concerned, and I think it's because my last couple of placements have involved a lot less talking-to-patients. Patients are awesome. (Mostly.) And getting someone's life story is always rewarding: you realise how much of an impact sickness can have on a person, or a family, and you realise how resilient people are. It's humbling. I'm in the right profession, I am, I just sometimes get so snowed under by the paperwork and the assessments and the constant stress that I forget this fact.
So, um, huzzah for socialised healthcare.
Love,
an abnormally patriotic-feeling British-Australian.
O_O
I -- WHAT. I mean, I knew it was a ridiculous system, but not that ridiculous.
(I didn't know Hillary Clinton had been pushing for universal healthcare during her husband's presidency. Good on her. And I think I need to reread the details of the recent changes more carefully.)
Also, that British doctor they interviewed was adorable <3 Adorable and loaded. I WANT A JOB IN LONDON AND A HOUSE IN GREENWICH.
...actually, I want to get my British citizenship renewed and then work in France and be a SUPERHERO NINJA DOCTOR in a zippy car who drives around Paris at night.
More seriously -- I think this was a good time for me to watch this documentary, manipulative though it is. I've been feeling kind of demotivated and apathetic as far as my course is concerned, and I think it's because my last couple of placements have involved a lot less talking-to-patients. Patients are awesome. (Mostly.) And getting someone's life story is always rewarding: you realise how much of an impact sickness can have on a person, or a family, and you realise how resilient people are. It's humbling. I'm in the right profession, I am, I just sometimes get so snowed under by the paperwork and the assessments and the constant stress that I forget this fact.
So, um, huzzah for socialised healthcare.
Love,
an abnormally patriotic-feeling British-Australian.