Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2898: clinic for the poor

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Waiting areas overflow with bodies that can't afford plastic chairs to be sick cracked over years of anxiety.

Hum from fluorescent bulbs over weary faces like heirlooms. generationally transmitted.

The medical practitioners here Burnouts or saints either one. sometimes both at once, bleeding out or bleeding empathy.

They see fifty patients where fifteen are seen by private practitioners, distributing miracles with common medications and expired medication samples.

Do this two times per day. indicates anything different deciding between nutrition and medication.

Nobody comes for preventive care, you appear when you dismiss symptoms. When suffering increases, becoming difficult.

Outweighs the shame of beneficence. Fever that will not break and kids quit eating, By then basic troubles have transformed into intricate crises.

Still, something is present here. what luxury hospitals lack, Suffering Democracy shared helplessness unites strangers.

Translating for refugees, the grandma the teenage guy holding the senior woman's position in line, Need gave birth to community.

Dignity kept in spite of systems made to remove it, humanity booming within the gaps of destroyed healthcare.