Physicians are continually frustrated as they see increasing administrative regulations as significant burdens that take away from patient care, and they are deeplypessimistic as they struggle to sustain their practices.
That some new Republican members of Congress, many of whom won with stirring campaigns and passionate Tea Party support, are already deeplypessimistic about turning things around in Washington is disturbing.
If Sebald has a greater literary intensity, it may be because he is more deeply, more yearningly pessimistic about the difficulty of historical retrieval.
If it seems pessimistic, it illustrates the kind of scenario that has been deeply worrying the National Health Service and emergency planners in the past few years.