Do you think that's an element of it as well, that people connect with it in that level of sickness, injury, dealing with doctors?

What ought to be a lesson of courage is easily twisted, instead, into the threat of unfettered incursion and sickness.

“These are really critical safeguards for public health, and undoing those would just have enormous implications for premature death and asthma and lost work days, sickness,” Fleischli said.

An air conditioner pumps in a cold breeze — partly there to offset the heat from the television sets, partly there to mitigate any effects of motion sickness — and then the simulation begins.

They concluded that staffing shortfalls and sickness absence would impact on the ability of midwives to deliver safe care.