In politics most people just critizise each other, but what did your local government actually do a good job on?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Me and a friend were talking about how, historically, the indigenous people here were superb doctors, which was a necessity because of intense feudalism otherwise killing everyone off. They not only knew how surgery worked but practiced a higher level of hygiene than everyone else. It wasn’t like modern stuff with machines or anything, but everything was proto-scientific and non-superstitious and you would’ve thought Hippocrates tutored the masses here.

    Then the place got conquered and the doctors here just got terrible because society introduced its current capitalist medical system post-conquest. It’s been like that for centuries now. Doctors regularly downplay things, pass patients around, fight with each other, overmedicate, misdiagnose, and so on. They say that, when you move between countries, your mental illness diagnosis list changes because different countries have different definitions of mental illness, but here you can accomplish that effect just by crossing the street.