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Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]
Something doesn't add up here, you're running your own firm, but yet you say you're only here for your BF and that you don't consider yourself an immigrant?
You reside in a country, you have a business in a country, you pay tax in a country and yet you still don't consider yourself as a resident in that country?
About your question with smear tests and gyno. Our GP's are trained and expected to deal with a wide range of different diagnoses. Before you go to a gyno you are expected to have primary tests done at your GP, because the majority of complaints can be treated by the GP and don't need to be referred to the next level. If a GP cannot diagnose a specific illness ect then you will be referred to the gyno and because tests have already taken place from the GP then you will be a lot quicker diagnosed by the gyno.
The reasons why this system is in place in almost every modern health care system is for many reasons.
1. That you don't have patients taking up precious time that specialists have treating illness' that can be treated in the first step. I.E your primary visit to your GP or health care nurse.
2. Another point I'll make a lot more extreme. The system in Poland at the moment unlike the UK means that if a patient breaks an arms, leg ect and turns up at the nearest A&E department they have a high chance that they may be told to go and find another hospital as the correct "specialist" is not on duty at that moment. The time it takes for a patient to go from one hospital to another, or to wait in A&E for a correct specialist could be the difference between life and death.
