Re: The NHS - uniquely the same
"Fixed people out the front"
Clearly you haven't worked in the NHS long enough"
That should say "slightly less broken out the front"
The vast majority of NHS in-patients I've met have chronic long term problems with multiple admissions per year. As they get older and their conditions progress (adding complications and new unrelated problems on the Way) the stays get longer.
We even know them as "such and such is back"
"But they only left 3 wks ago..."