No offence to the students on here, I realise this doesn't apply to a large majority of doctors. I'm seriously pissed off with the NHS' quality of care at the moment.
Not long back I broke a bone in my foot. It wasn't a serious injury, but it was a compound fracture which left me at risk of infection, and I was sent home, told that I had a small fracture, with nothing but a little strapping. I had a blatantly open wound but due to the position of it, It was impossible for me to see it properly (i'm ridiculously tall). The nature of the injury and location didn't really explain why there was an open wound on my foot.
I went back a week later, at which point I got to see my own Xray from the previous week and could see a fragment of bone protruding through the skin. Nice to know an untrained English student can spot a compound fracture on an Xray and a junior doctor can't. Luckily I didn't have any infection and it's healed now to some degree.
I just found out a friend slipped and broke his ribs in the shower. His friends had to break the door down and he went to hospital, and has now been sent home without any support and no painkillers. He couldn't get through to his friend so he had to go home on the ******* bus.
Remind me, what's the point in free healthcare if you don't actually get it?