Senior citizens don’t have the same rights ‘but it’s for their own good’

Imagine this. You go to your GP with something like a sore throat. Nothing that’s going to immediately kill you, you understand.

But something that, like a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, could turn big and nasty if not caught early. Your GP deals with the main issue and then turns to her computer.

This lets you know she’s now going to go through every detail of everything that’s ever been wrong with you, which is simultaneously flattering, admirable on her part, and tedious, as far as you’re concerned. Normally, anyway.