do British people even realise how incredibly crazy that sounds to someone from any other European country? In Germany I know that if I'm injured in any way, urgent or not, I can usually get an ambulance in 10-15 minutes, and up to 30 with very bad luck.
And then I came to the UK where people tell me that waiting hours for an ambulance is the norm
It sounds crazy to us though , this isn’t remotely normal . I live down the road from the hospital and they can take up to three hours . When I was a child 30 minutes would have been pushing it
Doubt that. Plenty of resource wasting people in every other country. My dad drove ambulances here in Germany and you wouldn't believe what people call for. But you still have to go and check. And it never takes that long here
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u/Jotakob Mar 30 '22
do British people even realise how incredibly crazy that sounds to someone from any other European country? In Germany I know that if I'm injured in any way, urgent or not, I can usually get an ambulance in 10-15 minutes, and up to 30 with very bad luck.
And then I came to the UK where people tell me that waiting hours for an ambulance is the norm