Bobko
10 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / The "Paracetamol Myth" - Polish people hesitate to visit UK doctors. [51]
In Russia, people love to spend days and weeks lying in a hospital bed. Whenever Russians arrive in the United States, they are inevitably shocked at how American hospitals will try to kick you out the minute you can stand on your own two legs.
To my relatives, I explain this by pointing at the exorbitant cost of hospital stay in the United States. But also, I tell them that what we have in Russia is idiotic, because those are beds that could be used by someone that needs it more urgently, rather than a typical Russian hypochondriac that enjoys being looked after. It's fantastically inefficient - how long hospitals are willing to keep people - in Russia.
Is it the same in Poland? Do Poles check into hospitals as if it were a spa in the south of France?
In Russia, people love to spend days and weeks lying in a hospital bed. Whenever Russians arrive in the United States, they are inevitably shocked at how American hospitals will try to kick you out the minute you can stand on your own two legs.
To my relatives, I explain this by pointing at the exorbitant cost of hospital stay in the United States. But also, I tell them that what we have in Russia is idiotic, because those are beds that could be used by someone that needs it more urgently, rather than a typical Russian hypochondriac that enjoys being looked after. It's fantastically inefficient - how long hospitals are willing to keep people - in Russia.
Is it the same in Poland? Do Poles check into hospitals as if it were a spa in the south of France?

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