Reg Darling spent thirty years working in state government where the issues of healthcare, health insurance, and bureaucracy live, entangle, and collide as governmental policy is shaped into functional reality.
I Would Prefer Not To is a memoir of one person's spiritual and creative survival in a world fraught with ethical ambiguity, paranoia, and stress. It offers an unflinching look at the frontline work of government, political intrusions into civil service, and how male-dominant power structures act to reduce even healthcare to a zero-sum scenario.