An American named Jim recently shared his very positive experience from Serbia on social media, emphasizing several times during the interview that the country saved his life.
Everything happened after an incident on a plane, after which he urgently needed medical assistance—an occasion when Serbs once again demonstrated their humanity and professionalism.
The Serbian healthcare system, its efficiency, and great compassion impressed this American visitor, who now often says that if the same thing had happened while he was in the United States, he would likely not be alive today.
“If I had been in America, I would be dead now. On the plane on the way here (to Serbia), we experienced severe turbulence. I was in the bathroom when the plane suddenly dropped about 100 meters. I thought we were going to die. What happened was that my tailbone hit the aluminum surface in the bathroom. It compressed my spine and locked the back of my neck, so I was pumping more blood to my brain than I should have. I had what is called an ischemic stroke,” he explained at the beginning.
@aleksei.gusakov How Serbia saved this American's life 😲🇷🇸#Serbia ♬ оригинальный звук – Attic Life
There was a man named Dale from Texas on board. He and his wife took the American to emergency medical services in Serbia, where he had an experience he will remember for the rest of his life.
“When we got there, I was amazed. It had that real Soviet-style look, almost East German. The facility looked like a high school from the 1960s. But people were actually being helped—that’s what I saw. In America, I’ve walked through million-dollar hospitals where people just sit around figuring out how to charge you, not how to help you as quickly as possible,” he said, pointing out the key difference between the United States and Serbia.
“Here in Serbia, they opened an entire wing of the hospital just for me. They gave me a doctor and a nurse and activated a CAT scan just for me. In America, they would have told me they don’t do that today and that would have been the end of it. I would have had to come back the next day. I would have died there,” he added, still in shock.
Now that everything ended well, the American cannot praise Serbian doctors, the local mentality, and the willingness to help others enough.
“One thing I keep repeating after this incident is—Serbia saved my life,” he concluded in an emotional video.
Jim is a professional musician from New Orleans and has been living in Serbia for five years. He has traveled almost the entire world and performed on every continent except Antarctica, but it is here, in a small Balkan country, that he found health, peace, and, as he says, a second life—literally. Because, he claims, without Serbia, he probably wouldn’t be alive today.
In an interview on the YouTube channel “Attic Life,” he spoke openly about the traumatic experience that changed his life. He talked honestly about everything he went through in Serbia—the good and the difficult—especially regarding how people perceive him. He says there were very few prejudices and that he truly enjoyed life here, particularly because of the simple lifestyle and good food.
“It’s hilarious… I had one kid, about 10–12 years old, who called me a slur, and that was it! I just looked at him like: ‘Okay, are you done?’ That’s a tiny percentage of people—I’d say it’s disproportionately smaller than anywhere else I’ve been in the world. There will always be xenophobic people. One of the reasons we decided it’s great to stay here is that we can drive a few kilometers and get fresh milk from a guy with a cow. I can’t do that in America—they’d put him in jail and tell the world raw milk will kill you. Now we also get fresh eggs from locals. I eat ten egg yolks a day in raw milk, and since I started doing that, I went from zero push-ups to a hundred without stopping. People here grow their own food. We get garlic and beef locally,” Jim said, adding:
“Serbian food isn’t the tastiest. I’m from New Orleans—we’re a city of spices—jambalaya, gumbo, beignets, baguettes. But at least the meat here is real. It’s not produced in laboratories; the cheese comes from a cow that was 15 kilometers away and is now at the market. I’m definitely in better shape now than I was three years ago when I came here. That’s because of access to fresh food,” Jim concluded.
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