We've been indoctrinated to regard the NHS with such superstitious awe that we never stop to examine its maladies
Last Saturday's Guardian ran two articles that made a fascinating if unhappy contrast. Danny Boyle was interviewed about, among other things, his Olympics opening ceremony last summer, with its nurses holding up NHS placards and "bouncing children on NHS beds". Then one could turn to Roger Taylor's outstanding long essay entitled We love the NHS too much to make it better.
Well before reading Taylor, I had been thinking again about the opening ceremony, and wondering how it must have felt watching that mawkish pageant if you had been one of the victims – one of the survivors, that is – of Stafford hospital. Is it possible that some degree of embarrassment about the egregious failings of this health service that we love too much explains why the full, almost indescribable horror...
Last Saturday's Guardian ran two articles that made a fascinating if unhappy contrast. Danny Boyle was interviewed about, among other things, his Olympics opening ceremony last summer, with its nurses holding up NHS placards and "bouncing children on NHS beds". Then one could turn to Roger Taylor's outstanding long essay entitled We love the NHS too much to make it better.
Well before reading Taylor, I had been thinking again about the opening ceremony, and wondering how it must have felt watching that mawkish pageant if you had been one of the victims – one of the survivors, that is – of Stafford hospital. Is it possible that some degree of embarrassment about the egregious failings of this health service that we love too much explains why the full, almost indescribable horror...
- 3/13/2013
- by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- The Guardian - Film News
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