Confusion

Thanks to everyone for their kind words about the blog! Its very rushed, and not too thought through so I've been quite pleasantly surprised that people are enjoying it!

I really want to write about the hospital, and the differences/similarities... but to be honest the reason I haven't is because I'm finding it too difficult. I was prepared to enter into a low-resource healthcare setting... and expected to find a lack of equipment, drugs etc... but I suppose I had this kind of idyllic thought about the people being the saving factor... battling away against the odds to make the best of a bad situation.

What I now realise is that of course resource affects people and their ability to do their job massively... healthcare worker motivation isn't just something that people write about in international health journals, it's a real problem... in addition to poor support and pay, many just don't have the training for the jobs they are being asked to perform.

So, I suppose it's difficult to write about, because I don't really understand the problems, their causes and the effects that they have on patient care. What I'm glad I do realise is that when people don't act in the way I'd expect, I need to think think think, and definitely not judge judge judge.