Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
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The Economist
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
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Summary
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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| 0:51.6 | Germany and Poland are neighbors, |
| 0:53.6 | trading partners and vital strategic allies of Ukraine. |
| 0:57.5 | But a Polish official recently accused Germany |
| 0:59.8 | of trying to turn his country into a vassal state. |
| 1:03.6 | The latest dust up in an increasingly fractious relationship. |
| 1:08.8 | And the United States Army is missing its recruitment targets, |
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