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I ended up in the hospital here a few times, and it really depends on which hospital you hit... the "nicest" one in wroclaw basically told me to sit and wait with tachocardia (i had like a 200bpm heartbeat, probably due to my thyroid but they didn't know that). Another time that happened I went to a different hospital and immediately got hooked up to an EKG and taken in.
A cut on her hands isn't gonna kill her, and if the doctor on call was busy trying to resusitate someone after a car accident no one's gonna give a fuck about her hand. The triage nurse is there to decide the priority of each patient. If you want a good comparison, I spent 8 hours in the ER with a broken toe in Canada before a doctor came up, numbed it and straighted it out against a pen (5 minutes?)...
That being said, you need to find out which hospital in your city is the best to go to. It's not nessesarily the nicest, newest one...often times its some old communist looking military hospital (szpital wojskowy). That, or if you call an ambulance they accept you in the ER immediately. It also helps to have some friends at the hospitals...now that we've lived here for some time (my girl is an ortodontist) alot of our friends are doctors (ginocologists, neurologists, etc) that work at hospitals. It's enough to phone one of them that we're coming, and they'll phone a friend of thiers that's on duty.
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