This is but another one of those stories but with an added twist that I can see happening here in the U.S. should Husseincare come to pass and that twist being police involvement for MENDING YOURSELF!
Dateline Sweden,,,,,
Jonas, 32, sewed up his own leg after ER wait
A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
"It took such a long time," the man told the local Sundsvall Tidning daily.
The man incurred the deep cut when he sliced his leg on the sharp edge of a kitchen stove while he was renovating at home.
"I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they told me that it shouldn't be closed, so I went to emergency and sat there," the man named only as Jonas told the newspaper.After an hour-long wait in a treatment room, he lost patience and proceeded to sew up his own wound.
"They had set out a needle and thread and so I decided to take the matter into my hands," he said.
But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of criminal dispossession (egenmäktigt förfarande) for having used hospital equipment without authorization.
While Jonas admitted to the newspaper that he has no prior experience of sewing up himself he sought to play down the fuss that his handiwork has caused, arguing that "through the ages people have always sewn themselves up".
An attentive reader might have picked up on a couple of other problems in this story as well with government administered health care; Medical facilities closed and oh my, the government not aware of it plus the added feature of the obvious being long waiting periods for even the direst of circumstances.
