Chapter 690 Do you want me to become a wanted criminal?
"Xiao, what's going on with you?" Billy, who was waiting anxiously at the hospital entrance, looked at Xiao Peng and asked.
Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "It's okay, send them in quickly so the doctor can take a look, and then find a doctor to give me some stitches!"
The doctor was already ready at the door, and Xiao Peng was taken to the emergency department for external wound cleaning and seven stitches.
Actually, the stitches weren't what made Xiao Peng sad. What made him sad was that he had a shaved head, and with a headband and a fixed net bag, he looked like an Indian...
Moreover, Xiao Peng also witnessed the efficiency of the emergency room in the UK. From the time he entered the hospital to the time he finished stitching, more than three hours had passed!
When it comes to the British treatment system, Xiao Peng sometimes really doesn't know what to say.
Is he bad? They're really good! The UK has the NHS, or National Health Service. This system provides free healthcare to all citizens. Even international students in the UK can access NHS services for an annual fee of £200. In fact, international students used to receive NHS services free of charge, but due to financial pressures, they've started charging students in recent years. This is the world's largest public healthcare system, providing healthcare for over 90% of the UK population. There's no charge for tests or surgeries.
But what most British people hate the most is the NHS system, which is really too inefficient! In fact, Xiao Peng should go to a private hospital, but in the small place of Dover, there is only this public hospital that provides A&E services (emergency services), so Xiao Peng can only come here.
In the British medical system, the divisions are very detailed. Emergency services are divided into three types: "large", "professional" and "small". Even the emergency alarm telephones have two numbers, "111" and "999". The former is the number to be dialed when "medical services are needed but not fatal", and the latter is the number to be dialed when life is in danger.
As for the long treatment time criticized online, this is actually not that exaggerated. 90% of emergency patients can receive treatment within four hours of waiting in line - so Xiao Peng's treatment time of more than three hours is relatively fast!
The question is, is this still called an emergency?
But compared to regular diagnosis and treatment, this is already very good! In the UK, about half of outpatients can see a doctor within six weeks, while the remaining half need to wait for more than six weeks, and one in every twenty people will wait for more than 21 weeks.
But compared to inpatients, outpatients are lucky: only half of inpatients in the UK can start their treatment within ten weeks, and one in twenty patients has to wait for more than thirty weeks for treatment!
That’s seven and a half months!
Since Xiao Peng was not a member of the NHS system, he had to pay for the surgery out of his own pocket. The doctor only performed a debridement and suture, and gave him a tetanus shot after the operation. No other procedures such as intravenous drips, CT scans, X-rays, or blood tests were performed. If he had been in China, these procedures would have been mandatory.
While Xiao Peng was still lamenting the British's lack of resource-wasting, Fabian explained the hospital's reasoning: testing costs money! And that money comes from the British healthcare system. If every patient had to undergo blood tests and X-rays like they do in China, the government would go bankrupt!
The characteristic of this free medical system is that if it is not necessary to do any examination, we will never do it!
Xiao Peng wasn't short of money, so I was paying for the necessary X-rays and tests, so he could just get them done, right? Getting the tests was no problem, but getting the results was a problem: the average wait time for an X-ray was ten days! When the doctor told Xiao Peng to wait ten days for the quarantine results, Xiao Peng was completely stunned. Ten days? Back in China, I could get the results in a few hours at most!
When Xiao Peng said this, Fabian was quite excited: the French love to compare themselves with the British. "Xiao, do you know why I bought a junky car to come find you? If I had called an ambulance, we might still be getting wet in the rain at the beach! You used to complain about the high ambulance fees in France, but they're much higher here in the UK. And our French ambulances are so fast! And the British ambulances? Although they stipulate that ambulances should arrive within eight minutes, believe me, if you see one within half an hour, you're lucky."
Seeing Fabian's happy expression, Xiao Peng really wanted to tell him there was a saying called "picking the tallest among the short ones"! It seems that in the eyes of the French, as long as they are better than the British, then they are the best in the world...
Including suturing, debridement, various tests, and medication, Xiao Peng had spent over two thousand pounds—the diagnosis and surgery here were free, but the medication had to be paid out of pocket. The money didn't matter to him, but Xiao Peng still felt like he'd been ripped off. Then he looked at his head, his clothes covered in blood. He was already in a bad mood today, and now it was even worse!
Billy went back and drove his car over to pick up Xiao Peng: "Xiao, I asked the villa to prepare some good food. You have been seriously injured, so go back and have a good rest."
"Rest?" Xiao Peng shook his head: "Fabian, contact Walter and the others and ask them where they are. Let's go find them!"
Billy was shocked when he heard this: "Xiao, you still want to go find that thief in this state?"
Xiao Peng nodded: "I'm so angry today and I have no place to vent! If I don't give him a good beating, I'm afraid I'll get sick!"
Fabian and Pascal crossed themselves together. "Poor thief, you can't blame society for your bad luck. You're just too unlucky to have run into Xiao."
After making a phone call, Fabian said, "Xiao, they are in the abandoned warehouse near the old lumber mill on the outskirts of the city."
Xiao Peng asked, "Do you know the place?"
"Navigation!" Fabian replied.
Xiao Peng nodded: "Okay, let's go!"
The car drove out of the city and arrived at the abandoned warehouse of the Dover Lumber Mill. Xiao Peng was a little confused as soon as he entered the warehouse: "What's going on?"
Besides Walter and the others, there were more than a dozen other people in the warehouse, all tied up like dumplings. Where did all these people come from? A few of them looked familiar. Damn, aren't these the guys from British Channel 4? What's going on? Why did Walter and the others tie up everyone from British Channel 4 here?
Seeing Xiao Peng coming over, Ka Xin came forward and said, "Boss, I heard you were injured? Are you okay?"
Xiao Peng cursed out loud, "Damn it! What's wrong with these people from the TV station? Are you planning to put me on the wanted list in the UK?"
Kasim looked proud and said, "Wanted us? We're almost heroes!"
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