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By Charlotte MacAulay

We do a lot of complaining about things that are not up to our standards today. One thing that gets a lot of negative attention is the medical system. Recently I had a chat with someone who worked in the field from the 1940s-1980s. Looking at it from that person’s perspective ‘we’ve come a long way baby’ from the days when polio patients were treated with an iron lung to a simple vaccination shot that has allowed some fatal diseases to all but disappear and from an operation on a kitchen table with little or no anesthetic to the life flight services we have that can take a critical patient to a trauma centre hundreds of miles away. No, everything is not always perfect, but we should take what’s wrong and learn from it. Lets not take for granted our universal health care and hope it can be managed and sustained for future generations.