Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Finnish Emergency Medicine: An American’s Experience
Instead, as I was walking to the ferry, I fell on the ice and broke my right wrist.
An excellent tale of an unexpected visit to an ED in Finland by a non-Finn. Sounds like things went very well, and many wishes for a speedy recovery.



Scandanavian countries have a very homogeneous and unified population which allows socialized medicine to function in a halfway decent manner.
In the rest of the world with our flotsam and jetsam populations, socialized medicine quickly evolves into disaster.