Florence King

To your health

Americans secretly yearn for an NHS, but would never admit it

Fredericksburg, Virginia

The huge popularity of your TV show Doc Martin here in the US has nothing to do with the balmy Cornish setting. What really turns us on are the scenes in the Doc’s surgery, where no one ever pays a bill.

Contrast that with the bedlam of an American doctor’s office.

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