The British are coming! The British are coming!

Abstract

If Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is a sample of what's to come on the healthcare front in the United States, we're in for rationing, some sloppy medical care, and waiting lists, according to the author, a family physician who trained in Scotland. Patients don't seem to matter much when the disinterest of government is combined with the fiscal incompetence of bureaucracy, he says. Why, then, are American tourists who have used the NHS so delighted with it?

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Eric G. Anderson

Eric G. Anderson, MD Dr Anderson, a regular contributor to POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE'S Physician-at-Large department, is a semiretired family physician in San Diego.