re: #84 yma o hyd

Heh. Thats pretty civilised!
Here, you got to make an appointment with your GP - takes usually two weeks. Then he refers you - goes not to another doctor but to admin. They take two weeks to send you a letter that they are thinking of you … then you get an appointment, within six weeks … then you get onto another waiting list, for a ‘procedure’. six weeks if you’re lucky - usually that gts cancelled, and you go to the bottom of the list …
People here are waiting for a hip transplant, for up to 18 months …
And lets not even start on the shenanigans the admin people get up to to get their statistics right, enver mind if its in the interest of the patients, never mind if the doctor would have something done right now.

‘Best system in the world’ - ha!

And here … If I call for an appointment and it’s urgent, I get to see a doctor the same day - if not urgent, appointment within a week. If after hours, there are “urgent care” clinics open ‘til 11 at night where I can go.

If I need an x-ray or CT scan or lab work or an EKG - can have it done the same day, usually right at my doctor’s office, with a quick visit back with him for results.

Other procedures might take a day or two or three to set up.

I don’t know exactly what is “broken” that needs to be “fixed”.