James Kynge
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It's not a particularly smart part of the town, but it's a decent place.
I haven't been able to get an appointment with our national health service, that's the free health care in the UK, for a couple of years.
For a couple of years.
Oh, gosh.
Just for sort of routine tests.
I mean, I hope nothing major.
And so when I listened to the video from this UK woman that you mentioned, I was really struck.
She's there in Beijing.
She's on day one.
And she said, the first thing she says to the video is, I couldn't get an appointment for over a year.
So I flew out to China.
to see somebody, and I've been seen immediately.
So when I heard that, I thought, well, maybe I need to go to China to see a doctor.
The other thing is the costs that you mentioned are really very reasonable.
I mean, you mentioned it was about 400 US dollars.
That's 298 pounds.
But for that, she got an endoscopy.
She got blood tests.
She got an electrocardiogram, a biopsy.
She got various drugs.