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Q: What Does It Take For The NHS To Remove a Splinter?

March 26, 2008 · No Comments

Answer: 5 hours, two nurses, three doctors of varying seniority and one X-ray technician!

Read more on  BBC broadcaster John Humphries encounter with the NHS, to remove a small splinter from his 7 year old son’s thumb.    My 7-year-old son, a tiny splinter and a five-hour farce, shows the NHS has lost the plot | the Daily Mail

A sorry tale of an organisation which is increasingly putting smiley faces & empathy ahead of clinical competence.

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