One more year syndrome. That's what Dr. Matt Poyner calls it. The tendency, as financial independence approaches, to seek problems, weak spots and reasons to worry.
What was I, a nice Jewish girl and new mother, doing out on a cold Christmas night riding around in an overheated car doing home visits? Well, someone has to work Christmas and it may as well be me.
When a surgeon decided to delay a patient’s scheduled (non-urgent) operation recently because she had a cough and no one could get a straight answer about her vaccinations status, she became belligerent, threatening to complain to the government that she was being refused healthcare.