12d • Holistic Healing Journey
The Pockets of the Poor, the Pockets of the Patient.
There is a specific kind of vertigo that comes with being a patient in modern Britain. It’s the feeling of holding two entirely conflicting truths in your hands at once: the profound, tear-inducing gratitude for a surgeon who just saved your eyesight from slipping into darkness, and the burning, justifiable rage that you only needed that surgery because the system failed you for years.
Recently, I lay on an NHS operating table for eye surgery. The technical skill was undeniable, the surgical techniques nothing short of amazing. The team stepped in at the precipice and stopped my vision from deteriorating further. For that specific, clinical moment of rescue, I am intensely grateful.
But the brutal reality is that I should never have been on that table.
For a long time, I suffered through the grueling side effects of medication that wasn’t working. I shouted loudly into the void of the health service, explaining that something was wrong, that my body was rejecting the treatment. Instead of being heard, I was met with a systemic shrug. I was made to feel like *I* was the problem as if my failing body was simply being difficult, rather than the medicine being wrong.
Over the past two years, my encounters with the NHS have felt less like healthcare and more like a series of administrative errors. There have been incorrect diagnoses.
There has been a endless pipeline of prescriptions. At one point, I engaged with the nutritional side of the service, laying out exactly what I eat, the daily habits, the deliberate choices I make to support my body. Their response? Change nothing. Do nothing different. No recommendations. No curiosity.
It felt as though real medicine had left the building. In its place was a passive, automated script-writing service. In the ten years I have lived in England, I have experienced exactly *one* genuine, hands-on medical examination. The rest of the time? I talk, they look at a screen, and they prescribe.
We recently changed our GP surgery, and I am incredibly relieved to report that this new practice actually conducts real medical examinations. They look, they touch, they investigate. But the fact that finding a doctor who actually examines a patient feels like winning a lottery is proof of how broken the baseline has become.
I want to protect the *concept* of the NHS with everything I have. The ideal of universal care is a beautiful, humane thing. But I can no longer ignore what the NHS has actually become.
It is a system where the public is having its pockets picked. There is a word for what happens when the vulnerable are systematically bullied out of their wealth and forced, out of sheer desperation, to prop up unethical corporate giants: **exploitation**.
While frontline staff are run ragged and patients are gaslit into believing their symptoms are in their heads, billions of pounds of our tax money are being funneled directly into the balance sheets of global pharmaceutical and tech empires.
We are told the system is starved of cash, yet it has plenty of money to buy expensive, patent-monopolized drugs and proprietary software from corporations with histories stained by fraud and ethical malpractice.
The modern NHS has become a giant funnel. It takes the goodwill, the desperation, and the tax money of the public, and uses it to feed an industrial corporate machine that doesn't have human benefit at its heart.
I stand here today with my sight no longer worsening thankful for the hands that operated on me. But I am clear-eyed about the truth: a system that waits until you are on the brink of disaster to offer "brilliant" intervention, while ignoring your voice, ignoring your lifestyle, and padding the pockets of billionaires in the process, is not a health service. It is a corporate marketplace dressed in a blue logo.
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The Pockets of the Poor, the Pockets of the Patient.
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