ENDING UP IN A&E ON New Year’s Eve is no one’s idea of a good time under the best conditions, but with the NHS now creaking to the point of disintegration, it seems especially to be avoided. So it was even more than usually alarming when my son sustained an injury that needed urgent medical attention.
But astonishingly, he was seen within two hours. (He was lucky — a doctor informed us that there was one patient who’d been waiting for 39.) Two days later he was called in for follow-up, and that too went smoothly.
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