WHAT a strange and confusing world we live in.
Dr Charlie Teo is constrained and reprimanded for undertaking risky brain surgery, yet other doctors have the right to abort living foetuses and to help with voluntary dying.
We use our vote to elect a government to run the country and then spend a fortune on another vote to give some Australians special rights.
We employ a huge public service to implement government policy and then employ profit-for-service experts, managers, advisors to tell them, the public service, what to do.
In our own small world at Swan Hill, we wait for hours in emergency departments and have to book a doctor’s appointment weeks ahead.
I remember when doctors made home visits.
Now we learn that students after nearly 100 years must not attend school before 8.30am.
So much for teachers as caring, aware professionals and for schools as a secure haven in a crazy world.
Frank Bolton,
Murrawee
