Miranda Mason Class of 2019 I was overjoyed when I was accepted into the Atlantis Project, a program designed to send students from the United States to countries all over Europe and parts of South America and New Zealand in order to shadow doctors in different healthcare environments. I was selected for placement in Athens, Greece, the origin of western culture, where I could shadow doctors in public and private hospitals. As a future doctor pursuing a political science minor, this was the ideal opportunity to see how a socialized healthcare system worked, and more specifically, it was a time to see the system during an economic crisis. After all, if a system is going to last, it has to be able to survive difficult times. Most importantly though, I wanted to see how patients and doctors benefitted or were disadvantaged by the system. Having seen the public healthcare system in Greece, it is clear there are flaw...
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