Mature-Age Students

In my desperate attempts to expediate my surgery I have discovered a few things. One; individuals working in health care services readily assume that the general public are complete morons and effectively take offense at anyone who has the slightest idea of what they're talking about. Two; certain things are in place that cannot be subverted. Certain procedures, certain waiting times, certain protocols, certain acres of trees need to be culled to make way for a seemingly endless acreage of paperwork. When pressed for an explanation as to why all these things are necessary one is inevitably met with confusion, bewilderment, anxiety, defensiveness and ultimately resentment. I have in mind a series of cunning ploys to pit competing surgeons against one another in a bid to gain my hefty private patient fee, but hesitate to impliment them out of fear of incurring the wrath of a wayward arthroscope. Finally I have discovered, through a process of elimination, that part of a surgeon's training at medical school involves the removal of people skills. Perhaps being able to effectively communicate with human beings in a civilised manner interferes with one's ability to make people's insides work good and stuff and junk.