America on life support: A hospital social worker reflects

America feels like the ultimate noncompliant patient.

We stabilize her, patch the wounds, manage the crisis, discharge with recommendations, and within four to eight years she is right back in the ICU on another freedom tangent that destabilizes the entire body of democracy again. The cycle repeats endlessly. Reactive instead of preventive. Fragmented instead of coordinated. Profitable instead of sustainable.

And honestly? The same dysfunction reflected in the country is reflected in …

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America on life support: A hospital social worker reflects