This woman had one emergency op at America's hospital to the stars and another on the NHS. So where did she get the best care?

Was I dreaming? I was certainly in shock — enough to provoke a heart attack perhaps, though that was not the reason I was here in hospital.

The surprise was the arrival of a doctor to see me fewer than 45 minutes after I arrived in A&E.

Given all the dreadful things we hear and read about the National Health Service, I was thinking that this couldn’t possibly be right. Surely I ought to have been waiting for at least three hours — maybe even three days?