[Quiet Man Cometh]

It just annoys me when I hear people griping about being there first, when someone comes in bleeding from their ears or something like that.

I only mention the health clinics to illustrate that there are other variables between systems besides one being universal and one not.

And yes, panic attacks and the like can be signs of something worse but it's up to the discretion of the doctors and nurses how much to investigate, and when someone comes in who really *is* dying, that investigation may be put off or cancelled entirely, as far as emergency room stuff goes. It sucks and I'm sure people die from it, but that can happen in any system, universal or not.