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Yep, this would happen. And you'd be in a cast anyway.
What also shocked me, when I broke the head of a metacarpal, nobody attempted to set the fracture, which would be a common practice back home.
My knuckle is now slightly deformed (collapsed) and it still hurts after almost 8 months. I was about to be sent for a surgery - I was actually given time to think about it - but the week later there was another doctor (mine was called to some emergency) who said it's not really needed and that sometimes bones heal all crooked. Fuck you! Why don't you break your hand and let it grow back crooked?
The other orthopedist was a fella, who year earlier told me, that "People have worse things and live" when diagnosing shoulder impingement so severe, that I had a cut tendon. I was about to have surgery on that shoulder back home about ten years ago, but I was too busy with my work. Here, some hack is telling me to go home and chill out when I wasn't even able to lift my arm and didn't sleep for a week.
I'm not saying, that outside the UK standards are higher or anything (because they're not), but doctors are more thorough on average.
I think it has a lot to do with savings. GPs don't like to send people to specialists, specialists don't like recommending invasive treatment.