No one gives a fuck about you in public healthcare

This happened almost 10 years ago now. I split my toenail in half (which hurts as bad as it seems), went to the hospital. I called my doctor friend, she told me they would have to rip the whole nail out when I got to the hospital so it could grow back again.

Well, I get to the hospital, my sock basically a pool of blood at that point, and when they finally decide to see me in, I’m greeted with the picture of doctors and nurses just chit chatting around, laughing, clearly doing anything but working, while I’m just there bleeding. Mind you this was NOT a busy day, the rest of rooms were empty. This wasn’t an issue of doctor availability because I was literally seeing them, both doctors and nurses, just standing on the corridor chatting.

After a solid 40 min and a couple times where I went out there and asked somebody to please at least cover or disinfect my injury, one of the doctors decides to see me. He barely looks at the toe for 5 seconds, and says “it’s fine just let it grow back”.

???? Bro what? My toenail is fucking disintegrated fym grow it back?

I tell him my doctor friend told me it’s better to rip it out, he says we don’t need to do that because it will be painful (bitch I’m already in pain). I decide to not fight about it. He’s gives me medicine for the pain and goes back to chatting with his coworkers, doesn’t even tell me we’re done until I go back out, ask him if that’s it, and he rudely dismisses me and says something like “what else do you want me to do?”.

Anyway, he’s a doctor, he must know best, right?

Right. It’s been 10 years now with only half a toenail thanks to that lazy fuck.

PLENTY of stories like this from public healthcare. Do yourself a favor, get a mutua / private healthcare and only do public when you need to, e.g. for more serious stuff where the real professionals are.