According to the Royal College of Surgeons of the 170,000 people who undergo emergency non-cardiac operations in a year, 25,000 will die, and if it's emergency abdominal surgery then you're talking highest mortality rates. The report also says that 'the chance of a patient dying in a UK hospital is 10% higher if they are admitted at a weekend rather than during the week.'
So maybe it's a good thing that the first GP just gave him paracetamol and sent him home.
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I hope I never have to go into hospital. I hear so many horror stories of all the things that go wrong that I wouldn't fancy my chances of coming out alive. And that's not just hysterical paranoia.
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