If you're having it done in the States, it will probably be done competently and I would recommend it. On the NHS, forget it.

I've had sinus surgery twice. The first time, on the U.K.'s Notional Health Service, was a succession of delay, botches, neglect, and then emergency operations (literally "you need to get this guy to theatre right NOW") to correct the mistakes. Privately done, it was the exact opposite.

I think my view on the NHS are well-known. Having known some close friends - and my mother when I was eight years old - almost die as a result of their incompetence (left on trolleys for eight hours with no care during which time their appendix burst - on two different occasions), and most recently having seen my father's health destroyed by a succession of failures (consultant's instructions that he needed certain treatment within weeks and then, due to a system lacking any proper co-ordination and ownership of responsibility, nothing done for over six months as he steadily deteriorated), I'm convinced we'd be better off if the NHS were closed down tomorrow.