The actor Jack Whitehall will never forget his first trip to A&E. It coincided with England’s football match against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup, which he watched in the waiting room. With the match going into extra time and then the customary defeat on penalties, Whitehall, left, recalls in a new book called Dear NHS that he must have been a rare patient who was anxious to have a longer waiting time. When he reached the head of the queue, his mother commiserated with the doctor for being on duty. “Trust me,” the doctor replied, “nothing I could see on an A&E ward could be more traumatic than watching England at a World Cup.”The book also includes Sir Michael Palin writing about his

Source: The Times August 04, 2020 23:01 UTC