One of the main reasons we will never join our neighbours to the south.When I was younger my mom had to get her appendix out the day before Easter. She told me later that they almost sent her home thinking it was a bladder infection or something, because her symptoms weren't as bad as they are in a lot of other people with appendicitis. If she had gone home things would have gotten very ugly for sure, she said the when the surgeon removed the appendix it practically burst in their hand. I don't how she knew this if she was under general anesthetic the whole time, and I'm sure they would never let her know how close she was to the appendix rupturing before it was removed.
Doctors want you to think they never make mistakes even though they're human, because they'll get the pants sued off of them if they do. They once thought that babies didn't need love to survive as long as all other needs were being met. They even thought babies couldn't even feel pain. They used to treat patients in mental hospitals by injecting insulin into them until they went into a coma.
Of course, it's a lot worse in the US where they treat it like a business and people need thousands of dollars for surgery. For some reason giving everyone the health care they need is "wrong".