If you had told me ten years ago that today my patients would routinely have to wait eight-plus hours in an emergency room to get not-very-good care, that every day my staff and I would spend hours arguing and doing paperwork to have my patients get basic medications, that there would be six-month waits to see specialists, again with the blizzard of paperwork, and that psychiatry would be essentially unavailable for children, especially ones with mental health problems, I would have asked what backward third-world country we were living in.
