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what i've found/heard in germany is this: you may struggle/it may take long to find certain things to get a diagnosis, but once you do, it's a ball that gets r
by avh02 5y ago
what i've found/heard in germany is this:
you may struggle/it may take long to find certain things to get a diagnosis, but once you do, it's a ball that gets rolling insanely fast.
2 anecdotal examples:
colleague's young child was fainting, took them quite a while to get through the right set of doctors/specialists to find out it was a brain tumor - after that was found though, they were scheduled for surgery the next morning. Operation successful, child okay.
I had an appendectomy in the middle of covid: went to the ER unannounced at 7 p.m. - was on the table at 1 a.m. - i paid 50 euros (10 for each day i spent there (they kept me for 3-4 days "just in case")). This was quoted to me up front (the rate, but not the number of days) and i signed a document stating i understood that charge before i was in surgery.
- f6v 5y agoThat’s all correct. The point is it’s incredibly hard to get to the specialist at times. I was trying to get an appointment in Belgium, they could only offer April 2022.
- petschge 5y agoSame is true in the US.
- TillE 5y agoIn Germany, in the vast majority of cases, you can simply go to any doctor's practice (including specialists, no referral required) during office hours and see the doctor the same day, if it's urgent. They'll squeeze you in. For non-urgent appointments, yes, the wait time for specialists can sometimes be months.