Mikaela Loach, "I thought the best way to create change in this world was to become a doctor" @mikaelaloach "When I was on the wards I noticed people were sick, not just because of disease, but because of the social conditions they're living in, their housing, their poverty.. People would be sick because of these social reasons" "We would do the important job of making sure they could survive for longer: medication, treating them.. Then sending them back out into the environment that made them sick.. So they'd just come back a few months later with similar issues" "What Wes Streeting is saying about addresisng waiting lists by using unused private health capacity doesn't make sense as it would be NHS doctors that would be used" "We have a very sick nation and we need to stop them getting sick in the first place. And the way we do that is to build a robust social care system. And stop continuing policies that push people into sickness"