Posted on 10/18/2019 7:38:24 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
I thought it was a bad thing myself but she was very weak when she went in so maybe they didn't think it was safe to release her. I also saw the part of doing nothing on the weekends as very wasteful, especially when it appeared to be a teaching hospital.
They seem to set everything up by population. Most places get a clinic. You have to have over X amount of people before you get a hospital. My town only has a clinic, which was why they referred me to a hospital in a larger town. Then the hospitals only do certain types of tests, depending again on the size. That is why we had to go from one hospital to another. They have fleets of ambulances and vans to transport patients from one place to another. When my wife went from Motril to Granada the van had to markings of an ambulance but was more like a minibus and there were other patients in it with her.
If you are an outpatient have to make an appointment then you sit in waiting rooms for your turn. Even at this large hospital in Granada every department had waiting rooms for each type of treatment. Because my wife was in inpatient they just wheeled her down at a predetermined time. I spent a lot of time in waiting rooms waiting for her to come out. I have no idea how long in advance the people walking in off of the street had to wait for their appointments. There were no appointments on the weekends.
My next door neighbor had a heart attack. EMTs had to come to the house and take him away. See post #20. He was very happy with his treatment.
My experience with Spaniards is that they habitually treat foreigners with courtesy and respect.
They say terrible things about each other, but they watch out for strangers. Something about the way they are raised.
Before my wife was my wife she flew from the UK to visit me in Georgia. While she was here she got sick. I took her to a walk in clinic. They gave her medicine and charged her $700. When we got back home her tongue started swelling up and she was having trouble breathing so I took her back. They said she had an allergic reaction to the medicine they gave her, treated her, gave her a different medicine and charged her another $1000. Luckily for her she had bought travel insurance before she left England. I had to pay for everything but within days after she returned home the insurance company sent her a check, which she then sent to me to cover the costs.
Heard that song not 8 hours ago...
Which artist?...................
No idea
It was a Hoyt Axton song, covered by Three Dog Night, Elvis, Waylon Jennings, Ike and Tina Turner and others..........
I was 62 when I moved here planning to live off of savings, my wife's English pension and Social Security when I turned 67. So far my wife's pension pays all of our expenses and I only use my savings to pay for vacations. But we don't pay rent, which could add to the cost of living here. We bought a house before we moved.
Another thing I didn't mention is that they give you a card in the Spanish system. If you need a prescription they load it on to the card. You go to the pharmacy, give your card to the pharmacist and they give you your medicines at a very low out of pocket cost.
I had to go to the pharmacy this morning to pick up some medicine for my wife, something that is sold without a prescription. The person in front of me got 4 or 5 different medicines and it cost him 3.20 Euros while the one box I bought cost almost 8. I mentioned that to my wife when I got back to the house and she said that when she bought the same medicine in America she paid $70 for it. I stopped complaining :-)
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