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I know how difficult it can be not speaking Spanish but usually in Doctors reception there is a notice saying to bring an interpreter if you can't speak Spanish. There not expensive and mine books appointments, if your meds are making you ill, she tells the doctor and a new prescription is sent to the Farmacia, also hospital appointments. If you live in Catral I can give you her contact details
Posted: Wed Mar 6, 2024 12:10pm
Angela25 wrote on Wed Mar 6, 2024 11:33am:
I know how difficult it can be not speaking Spanish but usually in Doctors reception there is a notice saying to bring an interpreter if you can't speak Spanish. There not expensive and mine books appointments, if your meds are making you ill, she tells the doctor and a new prescription is sent t...
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...o the Farmacia, also hospital appointments. If you live in Catral I can give you her contact details
No we are in Playa Flamenca but thanks an
AP wrote on Sun Mar 3, 2024 12:13pm:
My Spanish doctor assigned to me at the health centre spoke to me in English reviewed my medication and changed one of my tablets however this made me ill so went back to the same doctor who now tells me she can’t speak English and gave me a form to change doctor, I went to the reception told t...
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...hem I needed an English speaking doctor they said the doctor you have just seen speaks English? What should I do should I complain or has anyone else had this problem.
Hi AP, sorry to hear the news. The doctor may have good medical reasons to change your medication (other patients might have had serious side effects and the doctor did not want you to also suffer from them; or the prescription medication was no longer available in Spain). During the change over your body may experience side effects problems. There are also many private doctors in Spain. In English (and with a Spanish Google translation) you can also send a letter to the Spanish Ministry of Health Care and ask them to help you. Address: Ministerio de Sanidad, Paseo del Prado 18 - 20, 28014 Madrid, Tlf. (91 596 10 00) . Ministerio de Sanidad - Services for citizens - Contacta con el Ministerio Two years ago I had a problem with my prescription medication; I wrote to them (English and Google Spanish (I stated this at the top of my Spanish letter (typed letter with three short paragraphs) asking them to help and for them to provide a solution. About 5 weeks later I got a reply in English and Spanish with a solution; their letter stated that if the local Spanish doctors had a problem they should contact the Spanish Ministry of Health to solve this matter. I showed the Spanish and English letters to my local government Spanish medical services and doctors and I got served. My local Spanish government healthcare centre was not happy that I had contacted the Spanish Ministry of Health; they are no longer problematic. It is also an international right for you to be entitled to your prescription medication.
Posted: Wed Mar 6, 2024 8:43pm
Kim007 wrote on Wed Mar 6, 2024 8:02pm:
Hi AP, sorry to hear the news. The doctor may have good medical reasons to change your medication (other patients might have had serious side effects and the doctor did not want you to also suffer from them; or the prescription medication was no longer available in Spain). During the ...
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...change over your body may experience side effects problems. There are also many private doctors in Spain. In English (and with a Spanish Google translation) you can also send a letter to the Spanish Ministry of Health Care and ask them to help you. Address: Ministerio de Sanidad, Paseo del Prado 18 - 20, 28014 Madrid, Tlf. (91 596 10 00) . Ministerio de Sanidad - Services for citizens - Contacta con el Ministerio Two years ago I had a problem with my prescription medication; I wrote to them (English and Google Spanish (I stated this at the top of my Spanish letter (typed letter with three short paragraphs) asking them to help and for them to provide a solution. About 5 weeks later I got a reply in English and Spanish with a solution; their letter stated that if the local Spanish doctors had a problem they should contact the Spanish Ministry of Health to solve this matter. I showed the Spanish and English letters to my local government Spanish medical services and doctors and I got served. My local Spanish government healthcare centre was not happy that I had contacted the Spanish Ministry of Health; they are no longer problematic. It is also an international right for you to be entitled to your prescription medication.
That’s very interesting thank you for sharing this it could be very helpful many
Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 6:23am
Super helpful member
Although I can get by in Spanish on a day by day basis if I need to discuss something with my GP I take a translator with me. Would you wish something important or health threatening to be lost in translation? The doctor is possibly following guidelines issued by the health service or the practice where he/she works.
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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 8:30am
I totally agree and if I had been told that on the very first appointment I would have taken a translator but I was spoken to in English by the doctor with no problem but now the same doctor doesn’t speak English?
AP wrote on Wed Mar 6, 2024 8:43pm:
That’s very interesting thank you for sharing this it could be very helpful many
Hi , You can also go directly to the hospital A & E in Spain. They give you a medical check up and write/type out a medical prescription that you take to your local pharmacist.
Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 9:22am
AP wrote on Sun Mar 3, 2024 12:13pm:
My Spanish doctor assigned to me at the health centre spoke to me in English reviewed my medication and changed one of my tablets however this made me ill so went back to the same doctor who now tells me she can’t speak English and gave me a form to change doctor, I went to the reception told t...
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...hem I needed an English speaking doctor they said the doctor you have just seen speaks English? What should I do should I complain or has anyone else had this problem.
I see nowhere hee any reference to the Spanish law. It says that the hospitals and centers de salud are obliged to provide themselves translators
Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 9:23am
Kim007 wrote on Thu Mar 7, 2024 9:07am:
Hi , You can also go directly to the hospital A & E in Spain. They give you a medical check up and write/type out a medical prescription that you take to your local pharmacist.
That’s interesting I didn’t know that than
Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 10:54am
AP wrote on Sun Mar 3, 2024 6:02pm:
I think you’re missing the point she is the English speaking doctor that we asked for originally and she spoke to me in English but now she won’t is she being awkward or doesn’t like English people who have only been in Spain 6 months and hasn’t learned the language yet can’t understand...
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... what’s going on every other Spanish person we have dealt with so far have been fantastic lovely p
Just being a female.
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