Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

That totally concurs with what I've been told / have discovered. Basically anywhere other than the UK they cut you open within a few days, plate you up and you're good to go in a month. To some extent the 'wait and see' approach is valid as, for example, in my case, healing was relatively swift for the type of break and I'd rather not be sliceed open. But what it creates is massive uncertainty for most patients (myself included).

And unless you see a sympathetic specialist most doctors couldn't care less about a mere collar bone break. I feel for you dude.

Australia clearly follows the same methodology. 3 times I went for xrays, 3 times I was told "holy shit, that's bad it needs to be pinned" and even went in for the surgery eventually.. but they'd waited so fuckign long it'd started joining up and they felt it less risky to pin rather than 'manipulate'. Dicks.