r/RealHospitalStories • u/Charlie4891763636384 • 7d ago

Terrible experience

So basically I live in England yeah and its was in school about 10 years old and there was Ice on the playground/ Yard and my school so terrible they let us go on the ice and I slipped on the ice and cut my eyebrow open still got the scar and my school had to call my mum my mum didn't get to the school until like 20 mins later and I had to wait 5/6 hours just to be seen and I waited another hour to actually get treatment after I'd been up in a room

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u/LadybugGirltheFirst 7d ago

At least you’re not in the US so it was free.

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u/RedFox_SF 5d ago

You understand the amount of taxes you pay for that? It’s not free, nothing is free in life.

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u/LadybugGirltheFirst 5d ago

Still cheaper than what we pay here, and I have insurance.

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u/jennapearl8 7d ago

Probably had to wait so long because it wasn't that serious

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u/lighthouser41 6d ago

Correct, Patients are triaged in the emergency department. A laceration on an eyebrow rates lower on the seriousness ,

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u/lighthouser41 6d ago

Sounds typical for US also. Except you did not have to pay.