More serious cases are always prioritized. You should have gotten something for the pain though if it was that bad.
More serious cases are always prioritized. You should have gotten something for the pain though if it was that bad.
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Don't worry! Brexit is soon going through, they'll have LOTS of money for NHS soon.... /sarcasm
To be honest, NHS has been going shit for a while, especially when you have higher ups who doesn't want it.
Oh well, get well!
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Weeeell, NHS is the worst of the 'free choices' that is in the world. So, yes, free healthcare is still great when done right. NHS isn't done right anymore. Heck, Brexit has scared big chunks of their staff, doctors and nurses having gone to their home country or established jobs in other countries.
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I've been in a similar situation here in America, with similar wait times. But I was told that here in America everything is better and faster, so that's why we pay for it.
In all honesty, most urgent care situations take half a day, unless it's a real life or death emergency. My issue was being stabbed in the leg. I got to the hospital at 8pm, and got home the next morning around 4am.
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I was in hospital was 11pm to 4am bleeding from hemorrhage at the top of my throat after surgery. I wasn't even seen in that time to determine the blood flow and just kept spitting blood into a cardboard bowl they gave me.
I was all nice and pale and couldn't really talk when they finally saw me, just glad my partner was with me to handle things.
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Right, but what several have pointed out already and you seem to be ignoring is that paying and not waiting isn't an option; at least not in the form of private insurance. You're still going to go to the same hospital (or another like it), still be triaged and seen based on what patients are coming at the time. Your actual options are 1) free (taxed), wait 7 hours, 2) expensive (more than you pay in tax), and wait 7 hours, or 3) Pay for a private doctor visit out of pocket (not an insurance thing) and get seen faster. If you're super wealthy go ahead and try to find option 3, otherwise guess what kiddo, you're in the same boat as the rest of us.
Your dislocated shoulder is not an emergency in the same sense that someone who needs an EKG because they're having chest pain is an emergency.
The NHS is woefully underfunded. The UK honestly cant be thought of as a country with free healthcare for all anymore.
Who the hell calls an ambulance over a dislocated shoulder?
Also, if you go to the emergency room you will run the risk of waiting, public hospital or not. When you arrive at the hospital has little to no bearing on when you will be seen by the doctor. The severity of your problem is everything and a dislocated shoulder isn't exactly life threatening.
My mom was an emergency room nurse and would tell us horror stories of how people behaved and most of them were regarding wait times. My favorite was one about a guy with some random issue complaining that someone got to see the doctor ahead of him. That someone was a child who was not breathing.
I broke my toe last year was in and out in less than 2 hours with an x-ray and some strapping to keep it protected for a month. Different experiences at different hospitals/different times of the day and week.
I much prefer the NHS to a private healthcare system, even if the Tories are ripping it to shreds at the moment trying to privatise it.
When that does eventually happen, may the odds be ever in your favour.
In the US you would've probably been put into bankruptcy by that.
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Wow, I am so sorry that your entirely deferrable condition was triaged accurately given that no medical facility public or private has the unlimited resources needed to see every patient immediately.
I'm starting to see why Brexit managed to slip through.
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Funny how despite all of this, UK national healthcare frequently ranks above countries like Sweden, Canada, Germany etc. Would link official WHO ranking, but as far as I know they've stopped making them (due to criticism over issues like this among others).
You must be on the ACA or something. I don't have anything close to a deductible at all, and I only pay 220 a check for the wife and myself. The longest wait time I have at the hospital or doctors office, is the time it takes me to fill out a form. About a year ago I had an impacted tooth, I went to the dentist, I handed them an insurance card, I filled out a form and was sitting in a chair getting the best high from that NO2 tank. Next thing I know, I'm waking up and my mouth is numb. Entire process, from door to door, 2.5 hours.
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How much did you spend? Generally with the NHS if you're rushed through A&E you're fucked. I was hospitalised earlier this year and the NHS were flawless. For minor things like a dislocation there will always be a wait, and it depends on the hospital - I don't know if London ones are generally better/better staffed.
You said the solution yourself, go private. It's not that much better unless you're having an op.
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