India, Jan. 22 -- A top Elon Musk aide has revealed that after he injured his throat while eating fried chicken, leaving him unable to speak or swallow, doctors told him to wait six weeks before he could get the problem checked. Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said that a piece of fried chicken "tore a part" of his throat while going down, leaving him with a painful injury.

"Ate a piece of fried chicken tonight. It somehow tore part of my throat going down. Now I can barely swallow (or speak)," Bier said in an X post.

In what can be read as an indictment of the American healthcare system, he added: "Doctor says: 'You can get it checked out with an endoscopy. Earliest availability is in 4-6 weeks.'"

An endoscopy is a medical procedur...