American doctor visits the NHS
2014-08-14 17:48:16.96865+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
An American doctor (on vacation in the UK) experiences an NHS emergency room.
... I fretted about going to the hospital. It wasn’t the prospect of navigating a slightly foreign ER, but simply the prospect of the wait. While I am a staunch supporter of the British NHS in the back of my mind I envisioned a paralyzingly full emergency room and an agonizing 18 hour wait only to find he had nothing in his eye (the basic antechamber of Hell scenario). ...