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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). ...

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