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Old 07-08-2010, 03:55 AM   #18
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I had a new reverse culture shock today. I went to a department store, and arriving at the cashier 15 minutes before closing time, the cashier told me to go to another cashier as he had to catch his train and "didn't want to do extra time". AFAIK, there are paid to work until closing time, not 15min before to catch their train. The other cashier, at the other end of the floor, was already closed too, so I had to look for some staff and also beg them to let me pay !! This is really not a "customer is king" kind of country. Such a contrast with southern Asian countries where I travelled where people stick to you trying to sell anything and won't take no for an answer.


I can't comment on 'reverse culture shock', but can say that in England, each time I go for a routine check-up at the dentist I have to wait 30-45 minutues and sometimes an hour. It infuriates me (as I have to arrange time off work specially to take these appointments and make up the time out of my leisure time ¬_¬) but if I walk out, a new appointment can't be scheduled for a couple or several months.
Is that for a GP or a specialist doctor ? In my case it was a GP.

But I heard that Britain had a serious shortage of doctors, and that the NHS even allowed patients to be treated abroad so as to cut off queues at British hospitals.
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