Comments on: les malades imaginaires

By: morphess

morphess — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:21:09 +0000

Petite, thanks for that….much as I suspected….

Here in NZ NO ONE says Bless You - my children frequently comment on it - didn’t they have the plague here?

By: petite

petite — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:18:23 +0000

rant away sierra, I don’t mind. unless you want to do it on your lovely blog of course.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:11:05 +0000

Ria, you said it! Unfortunately, private insurance was beyond my means.

Reachy, you’re right, I should have mentioned the receptionist as the first hurdle. And I’m sure there are people dying or becoming more ill because of this kind of thing. But who’s going to complain? What would be the point?

But the more I type the more I’m tempted to rant about the hidebound Dutch medical system, so I’ll shut up here.

By: Ria

Ria — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:18:02 +0000

Pssst … Reachy - the codeword is particulier verzekerd.

By: reachy

reachy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:10:03 +0000

Sierra, that’s assuming that you actually get to see a doctor in the first place. Any time I ring a doctor here (Holland, and it’s thankfully once in a blue moon) I can never get further than the receptionist who pulls some hocus-pocus diagnosis out of her arse and tells me to take a paracetamol and the day off, whatever the symtoms. I have friends who were told they had various conditions from diabetes to epilepsy when they rang to complain about injured knees and headaches. I’m amazed there aren’t people dropping dead all over Holland due to misdiagnosis. Or perhaps there’s a secret codeword that only the natives know, which allows them to see the wizard…