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Not from the UK but acquaintances from London pretty unanimously agree that NHS is great value as long as it is nothing urgent, but akin to Russian roulette for
by mamonster 4y ago
Not from the UK but acquaintances from London pretty unanimously agree that NHS is great value as long as it is nothing urgent, but akin to Russian roulette for serious operations. Would say in Switzerland(where there is a weird version of universal healthcare) where I am this also kind of holds true, but 2 years is unthinkable here
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoIt didn't take 2 years. That was the time measured, somewhat arbitralily, from the initial cancelled mammogram. The actual time is left somewhat vague but the information they give narrow it down to between 7 months (that was the time from her finding the lump to seeing an oncologist) but then an unspecified time to get the scan and recieve the results, (if things had gone better you could add another fraction of 8 weeks, since that was how long the wait for the surgery was, but that date must have been set some time before they got the results and knew that it was too late). But either way less than 12 months, since she spotted the lump in late 2021 and we're currently not yet in late 2022. So 7/8 months for a breast lump being spotted to a scheduled mastectomy, and at some point in that process it was identified as fast growing, in the time after COVID. Is that fast or slow? I don't know, but I kind of feel like after reading an article about it I should know, and people shouldn't be left with the incorrect impression that it took 3x as long.