A first-person French-language monologue criticizing the British healthcare system (NHS). The speaker alleges systemic problems: GP gatekeeping tied to geographic registration, brief 2–10 minute consultations that under-diagnose serious illness, long emergency/outpatient waits (claims of four-hour ER minimum and months-long waits for operations), procurement waste/corruption (excessive prices), and barriers to private specialist access. The speaker concludes that the system is dangerous for people with chronic illnesses and strongly advises against relying on NHS care.
Hello, everyone. I've had people write to me asking questions about the British healthcare system. So I'll tell you something very simple. I'll be very clear with you. If you have a health problem, that is to say, if you have a chronic illness, for example, if you're anemic or diabetic, you have any medical condition that requires monitoring, don't come to England. They'll kill you, these people. You'll die, okay? They'll abandon you and you'll die. So let me explain a little bit about the system, how it works here. When you arrive in England, you have to register with a doctor who corresponds, if you will, to the catchment area of your neighborhood. So each doctor has an area and you have to go and register with him. So you don't have to choose your doctor based on your address. He's defined almost automatically for all your medical needs. That means that even if you're a woman and you're going to see a doctor, you have to start with your gp. You can't see a specialist or go to the hospital if you don't go through that doctor. So to give you an idea, in England, there's no compulsory insurance for everyone who works. It's an insurance that takes money from your income, that takes 12% of your gross salary. So you have to know that there are about, I think, 33 million people who work in England. That means that if we take 12% of their salary, we can say that it's about the same as if we took, let's say, 4 million people who work solely to finance, who give 100% of their salary to finance the healthcare system in Great Britain. That's a lot of money. And I think that since the construction of the pyramids, we haven't brought together so many people on a project like this. It's a unique Faro, but remember, Faro was a bastard. So it's exactly the same for the healthcare system here. That is to say, around what we call the nhs, the hospital system here, there's a shitload, let's put it that way. There's a shitload of small private companies that belong, well, we don't know, we don't know to whom, probably to friends who provide services and products in exchange for cash. Which means that, for example, we find crazy things like the NHS will replace a lamp for €3,000, or find that the NHS bought 1 kg of pasta for €50. So, of course, I can set up a company and sell them a kilo of pasta for €25. So that's it. That's a saving of 50% anyway. But no, they won't buy from me. You can imagine that's not how it works. So what happens is that as A doctor, in 99.9% of cases I've been here for years, I've never seen a doctor who's not Indian, a general practitioner who's not Indian. That means there's an ethnicization of the professions here. And the majority of doctors, you'll have to deal with general practitioners, and even more so will generally be Indian. So I'm going to tell you something very, very nasty. But that's what I've noticed. Everything that's humanity, everything, that's what I called it. Everything that's humanism. Everything that's projection towards the other and feeling what the other feels in empathy, without things that weren't invented. I'll tell you right away. Ah. And you realize when you meet your first general practitioner, that means that these are people you have to see. Things like this. I'll tell you when there's a sick patient. When there's a sick patient. There are two problems with a sick patient. The first problem is that the patient is sick and needs to be treated. So there's a problem, if you like, a purely medical problem, but also another problem. There's a problem of responsibility. That means when you have someone who has an emergency, that person is a responsibility. So the system here tries to do one thing, tries to create people who have zero conscience, who are ready to take responsibility, not to treat the patient, but to take responsibility for the patient in exchange for hard cash. So it's very simple. You go to the GP, he explains to you he has 10 minutes. You have 10 minutes on your watch. In reality, it's two minutes. It's three minutes of watch. You have the right to complain about one symptom at a time. For example, if you say I have pain here and then I have pain there, even if the two pains are related, it may be the same one, linked to the same pathology. He doesn't care. He'll tell you straight to the choose. You talk about one, you choose one, you. You talk about it while you're talking, he's already filling out the. He's already filling out the stub book to give you paracetamol. He sends you to paracetamol. By the way, when you arrive at the pharmacy with a prescription for paracetamol, they tell you, listen, it would cost you less to go buy it at the grocery store. It's the same quote. So the police officer here, when a patient complains they have to send them to the paracetamol house, there are always horror stories of people who have fallen seriously ill with cancer and diseases like that and who have died after going to their gp, what we call general practitioners here, they have been to the GP maybe 10, 15, 20 times in two years, always complaining of the same symptoms and have always been sent home. And the diagnosis was only made at the autopsy, in fact. So you go to the gp. So the gp, who is a bit, let's say nice, has the following option. He writes you a prescription for paracetamol, you go home after six weeks. After six weeks. There are two options. There's option number one, which is that you have died from the condition you had. That is number one. The second option is that you are still sick and that you have gotten worse. At that point, he might want to see if he has the skills to do it. You should know that in India there have even been airline pilot diplomas that have been purchased. They found people in airlines who were flying planes they had no qualifications other than papers to buy. So it's a country riddled with corruption and I can imagine how easy it is to buy a medical degree. There are some totally mind boggling medical errors. The, the kind that wouldn't even happen in the Middle Ages, even with the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. You can't go wrong that way. For example, there's Doctor, Doctor, I say that in quotation marks. Who removed an egg from a woman, that's an overdose. It's not an overdose, it's an overdose from a woman who believed she was removing an inflamed appendix, an inflamed appendix, believing she was treating appendicitis. So the two things are extremely different. And on top of that, on top of having removed it, even when he removed it, he placed it on a metal tray, it didn't click with him or the people around him. And the person actually died. The person died of massive internal bleeding because the appendix is almost completely unvascularized. Whereas everything that is the woman's system, lets say the woman's system that allows her to have children. And everything is, is, is, is, is, is. There are tubes as big as a finger. So there you have it. And the woman, well, she died. And in fact, when you go to the emergency room, the minimum waiting time is four hours. That's the time, that's the minimum time. And generally you leave with some pin, decide you, you are going to say you leave with some paracetamol as well. That's the state of medicine here. So if you want to get treatment. It's happened to me sometimes when I'm sick, I go straight to a private clinic. I pay for private clinics out of my own pocket. I do have private insurance, I do have private insurance that I pay for. The problem with this private insurance is that if I want to, I, it allows me to access specialists in private clinics. But the problem with that is that I have to go through my gp. You don't remove that. What do you do? You don't remove it unless you're close to the Queen. You can skip that, but you don't skip that as an ordinary citizen. So I have to go to my GP and say, hello, I would like a recommendation for a private clinic or a specialist, because I haven't even finished my sentence and I'm already writing a prescription for paracetamol. Do you understand that? So I can tell you something. And I'm not talking about dentists, I'm not talking about other specialists. I'm not talking about the level of quackery and the absolutely astounding medical errors that you hear in this country. And when everything is going well, when everything is going well, well, there are waiting times of six months, eight months, one year for sometimes extremely serious operations. And I'm not talking about absurdities like that he pays an 8 year old boy to change sex, or he pays a 30 year old woman to have her breasts changed from a C to a dd. But he would refuse, for example, to pay for vital medical treatment for someone who is dying of cancer, or for a child who has to walk or something like that. So it's a complete and utter aberration. Tell yourself, in short, to summarize, because we're at the end of the video to summarize. There is no medicine in this country. Forget all medicine. Oh, maybe. So I'm going to be, I'm going to be, I'm going to be optimistic. When you always have to leave a little door open, it's because you're dying like that. You're really dying. You have your chances. If, for example, you really have an allergy or I don't know what it's called to peanuts or something like that, you're really dying and you call them, with a bit of luck, really, with a bit of luck, you can get a fairly quick intervention. But apart from that, don't count on the rest of the medicine. Tell yourself there's no medicine in England. That will allow you to be more like that. If you need medicine, come to England. Live in England. Me and a lot of people I know. One day touch wood, one day I become high maintenance in medicine. I leave this country. I can't live here. There's no medicine. Bye guys. And then I'll see you in another video.
