From the ... AIT - The good, the bad and the rest

摘要

I have to confess that I have stopped watching the news. I last watched it when footage of a small child dying of shrapnel injuries in the Syrian city of Horns was shown on the day Marie Colvin was killed. I've temporarily stopped 'keeping up to date' for the sake of my sanity.One of the things that has most struck me about the situation in Syria is that Bashar al Assad is a doctor, an ophthalmologist in fact, who did part of his training in the UK. This seems to have jarred in my consciousness. And yet why should it? Did I think that medical training turned you into a better person? Was I naive enough to think that no trained doctor would be able to oversee such suffering? Actually, I think I was. I think that beneath all the cynicism I've picked up over my 12 years in the National Health Service (NHS), I still have an underlying faith in the decency of doctors.