The NHS As An Addiction

I work in the NHS. I have done since I left university in 2002. I started temping and went onto management. I really like the NHS. Its an amazing place to work because:

a) it provides an outstanding level of service for the majority of the time, free at the point of delivery;

b) staying in a NHS hospital provides on tap expertise in more areas than you can shake a stick at, certainly more than if you went privately;

c) no one works in it for the money really: people do it because they want to help others;

d) you never have to wait for an appointment if you work in a hospital;

I've always been a hospital junkie. For as long as I can remember I've liked the bussle, the rushing, the deadly quiet periods and the whole juxtapositioning of emotions and experience: life; death; eleation; despondency. It gives you a respect for human life and human beings generally that I'm not sure you could get elsewhere. You see people who give up and sometimes you agree with them and also the people who keep kicking in the face of all odds. It's truly amazing.

Anyway - almost hometime.