(There’s lots not to like about the National Health Service here in the UK, but if I had an episode like yours I would expect to be seen by a medical professional within a day, and either told “oh yes, that’s a thing that happens and it isn’t dangerous” or brain-scanned in short order, and it wouldn’t cost me a penny[1].)
[1] Of course my taxes are higher in order to support such things; my point isn’t that we magically get decent healthcare for free but that having this sort of thing done free-at-point-of-use sets up incentives that are better for everyone than the US system, where either you have private insurance and get over-tested and over-treated for everything or else you have no insurance and don’t get examined at all even when you might have suffered some exciting brain malfunction.
Man, US healthcare is ridiculous.
(There’s lots not to like about the National Health Service here in the UK, but if I had an episode like yours I would expect to be seen by a medical professional within a day, and either told “oh yes, that’s a thing that happens and it isn’t dangerous” or brain-scanned in short order, and it wouldn’t cost me a penny[1].)
[1] Of course my taxes are higher in order to support such things; my point isn’t that we magically get decent healthcare for free but that having this sort of thing done free-at-point-of-use sets up incentives that are better for everyone than the US system, where either you have private insurance and get over-tested and over-treated for everything or else you have no insurance and don’t get examined at all even when you might have suffered some exciting brain malfunction.