He added: 'You have heard the stories about people going to GPs and whatever is wrong with you they give you a paracetamol and tell you to go away.
My friend living in London told me about it! xD I thought she was joking or sth...
She also told me that she was amazed at what the visits at GP look like - you go in, tell about your symptoms and the doctor... types them into the internet... and bases the diagnosis on what he/she finds there... o_O As you can imagine she had a better opinion about Polish GPs.
(Now, before you jump on her - she's an Anglophile, she loves the language and went to the UK not because she had to but because she wanted to).
And, yes, we are all acutely aware of the problems with health care in Poland, so don't bother :P I'm just repeating what she said, so don't kill the messenger ;)
Yes. Many times more.
Jon, I've lived in Poland all my life and I have never met a drunk doctor or a nurse. Seriously. Never.
It would make a lot of sense - it's a well known phenomenon that some elderly people see the doctor as a social life.
Yes, doctors complain about it.
It is far from unimaginable in Warsaw. Here, when using a private clinic (in my case Medicover) it is very unusual to get an appointment for a GP the same day
I always can get to the doctor in my przychodnia the same day. Unless it's a flu season then you have to be usually very early to get in.
My daughter was recently perscibed antibiotics upon antibiotics for recurring tonsilitis, this contstant dose caused other problems such as mouth thrush, gingivites and other nasty ***** as the antibiotics were killing the healthy bacteria.
You should always take probiotics when you take antibiotics!
I've read articles saying that antibiotics are being prescribed too often, that's nothing new, but now I googled and found something funny:
kobieta.pl/drukuj/artykul/ostroznie-z-antybiotykami
Dr Hanna Orłowska: Rzeczywiście, są lekarze, którzy zbyt często wypisują antybiotyki, zwłaszcza jeśli rodzic nalega. Tymczasem nie wszystkie zakażenia bakteryjne wymagają antybiotykoterapii. Ale to problem nie tylko nasz, w Wielkiej Brytanii antybiotyki stosowane są jeszcze powszechniej.
Dr Hanna Orłowska is saying that there are doctors in Poland who prescribe antibiotics too often and she adds that the use of antibiotics is even more common in the UK o_O
So what's the truth?