We have 24 hour shopping for that tin of beans we fancy at 2 in the morning, we have 24 hour banking for that transfer of funds to cover our credit card bill at 3am and we have 999 and NHS direct for that cold which we've had for the last five days but has got really annoying and is now stopping us from sleeping at 4am. We are not prepared to wait for anything, especially if we feel ill. Meanwhile, in a different part of town, that chest pain thats been coming and going all day is ignored in the hope that it will, given time, simply go away....strange old world isn't it.