Damn NHS,
I went in for an ingrowing toenail and they ended up amputating my arms, legs and entire body, and now I look like this:
Seriously though, I think it all depends on where you live and whats wrong with you. I suspect they're good at the serious stuff like saving peoples lives and that, but for sports injuries I just don't bother any more.
Some years ago I used to do pole vaulting and I had a recurring hamstring strain which had lasted for about 4 years. I went to my GP who sent me to the Royal London Hospital where I was told I had a suspected spondylysisis (or something along those lines nots sure how you spell it) which is something like a stress fracture of the vertebrae which I had probably got from one of my many pole vaulting accidents. I dutifully plodded up to the Royal London Hospital every month or so for 2 years on the advice of my GP (who refused to refer me to the Sports Injury Clinic I asked to go to). The doctors disagreed what was wrong with me and just did test after test and no actual treatment whatsoever.
In the end I gave up and saw a trainee shiatsu massage practitioner who more or less fixed me in one treatment!
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