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The system has an infinite demand and a finite resource and it can't cope.
So people are readily used to spending hours waiting for treatment as an emergency.
If you're in a road traffic accident, it's different.
You know, if it's life threatening, it's different.
The challenge comes if you need a hip replacement or a knee replacement and you're on a waiting list.
Could be six months.
It could be a year.
It could be three years.
There's a big backlog in the system because of COVID.
Every emergency I've ever had, having my daughter, no complaints at all.
Yeah, we pay from our salaries.
We have taxes and something called national insurance and that contributes to the cost, but it doesn't cover all of it.
But yeah, it does the best it can under the circumstances.
And that day it saved me.
You made it to the wedding.
I'm a little bit older than you.
I'm nearer 60 than I am 50.
So I've never been up a ladder since.
Yeah, that's wise.
They are indeed.