[Evans, Marv]

When my former wife & I were traveling in Europe in the mid '70's. she developed a fever and abdominal pains. We went to two Spanish doctors, on of which gave her crushed charcoal to take for a few days. As she was getting worse I told her we needed to fly back to England thinking we'd fly back to Boston from there. Took her to a hospital outside of London, because she was feeling really bad. They diagnosed a bad abdominal infection so was admitted immediately. She ended up having to be operated on and stayed in the hospital for three weeks. At that time I didn't pay attention to the fact they had socialized medicine and tried to find out how/who/where to pay for it and wondered why everybody seemed puzzled. Didn't cost anything & the care was really good.