Share your experiences for overseas medical or dental treatment

paddyrg

Not all medical treatment is equal

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Most-doctors-in-urban-India-are-not-MBBS-Study/articleshow/21566944.cms

OK, there will be great and less great practitioners everywhere, but if you go into a building and a guy in a white coat tells you to take a list of tablets he writes in a language you cannot read which you have to buy for yourself from a street pharmacy where you cannot authenticate the providence of the medicines...well, it may appear cursorily similar to going at home, but there are a series of higher risks you're taking in exchange for a lower price.

CM66

I've used my EHIC for treatment in Spain for cellulitis caused by mosquito bites.

Made sure i went to a public clinic, was seen treated and given a prescription within 1/2 hour

Just had to pay about €10 at the Pharmacy for the tablets

Dewpoint

Has anyone had any experience using dental implant practices in Hungry? e.g Smile Savers etc

eDicky

While living in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the early seventies I went to a local dentist to have a cavity treated; he put in a temporary filling until he could fit me in two weeks later. But on a trip to Manali in the foothills of the Indian Himalaya it soon fell out while chomping on the delicious apples that grow there. I foolishly neglected it so one day, back in Kabul, I was suddenly struck by excruciating pain. This happened to be a Friday, when nobody works, including dentists. The only chance was the government clinic, where I knew the only choice would be extraction, but I was too desperate with agony to survive until Saturday.


Lying in the chair when my turn came at the clinic, the dentist gave me an injection to freeze my jaw and then lit a cigarette. He smoked half, then put it down and picked up the pliers. My jaw was still only slightly frozen, so I said, "Doctor, please, finish your cigarette". He did so. The treatment was free of charge.

elorac1932

I had a tooth rebuilt while on holiday in lanzarote.It was quite a lengthy process and cost me fifty euros.The work was excellent and the service was good.This was a private dentist,as public one only extracts teeth.

mameha

JAPAN

Local GPs/Dentists are plentiful and you just turn up and will be seen quite fast. It is all private, if you are a tourist I would imagine it is quite expensive to see a doctor/dentist and get some medicine. I was paying health insurance so only had to pay 10% of the cost, but it still worked out at £10 at least per visit.

The doctors love to prescribe LOADS of medicine, presumably they get commission. You will get at least 4 kinds of pills for any problem, one is the active ingredient and the others counteract the side effects. Unlike the NHS they want to ease the symptom rather than cure the cause, because it is private so you are a customer. Often the solution to a medical problem is to simply wait for to heal, but it makes you feel like a hypochondriac when the doctor says so. In Japan (and presumably most countries with no NHS), instead you will be given a load of different placebos so you feel vindicated for having your problem confirmed and the doctor, pharmacist and drug manufacturer gets paid so everyone wins.

littlereddevil

My husband and brother both had extensive top quality dental work done in Fethiye, Turkey for a fraction of the price they were quoted here.

brook2jack

Strange a brand new poster , resurrects an old thread elsewhere and posts here to recommend a clinic ........

Dewpoint

I'm always suspicious of clinics that offer cash for referrals as in the case of "platinum dental" (Budapest). See FAQ on their website.