# Healthcare from the aorta

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthcare-from-the-aorta/745701>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthcare-from-the-aorta/745701 "2016-02-10T11:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthcare-from-the-aorta/745701/1 "2016-02-10T11:31:42Z")

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Just offering this because people deserve to know:

[Why I left the US to work in the NHS: compassion is part of the job](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/10/why-i-left-us-to-work-in-nhs-compassion-tara-mastracci)

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> I spent eight years working at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which is rightly seen as one of the best hospitals in the world. It’s a great hospital, which is a thought leader in aortic and vascular surgery, and attracts some of medicine’s best and brightest minds. It is also very big on innovation and its facilities are world class. It’s somewhere any doctor who enjoys their job would want to work.
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> But in October 2014 I came to work at the Royal Free hospital in north London.

Feel the Bern.🙂