Anyone who has the misfortune of stepping foot into a hospital recently will know how bad things are with the NHS, where the only good thing about the long waits is that they stave off the subsequent terrible treatment.
Still, it is helpful sometimes to see how other countries view our health service – which has for years been described by politicians as the ‘envy of the world’. In that vein, Mr S was alerted by Spectator commentator Susucat to a revealing article which was published yesterday by the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, based in Milan.
In the piece, the paper’s correspondent, Luigi Ippolito, explains his experience of dealing with the NHS over the last 12 months after suffering from diverticulitis, a condition which affects the large intestine. Unfortunately, it seems that his experience was not a good one, going by the headline of his piece, which Google translates as: ‘My terrible experience with English health, the mad carousel where life is played.
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