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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:04pm

beckfordburger

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:04pm

AP wrote on Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:05pm:
While I agree with you on one level I can’t understand why with the amount of money the expats bring into the country more effort isn’t made to help the situation, in the uk most of the A&E waiting rooms are taken up by Asian non English speaking people yet I have never heard of translato...

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...rs being required?

Here's what happened. You went to the doctor not speaking a word of Spanish. The doctor prescribed medication which made you feel ill. She made a professional decision not to deal with you in English (at any level) in order to avoid any confusion, which could expose her (and her practice) to legal and professional liability.

Perhaps you could ask your new doctor to cure your sense of entitlement and tendency to drone on.

Hope that helps.

Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:10pm

AP

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:10pm

Wow who are you doctor know all

Finally keep your opinions to yourself not helpful and not interested

Leaving this forum now so reply is poi

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:14pm

Angela25

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:14pm

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.

You have to really ill to go to A&E, being unwell because of medication does not give you the right to get a free health check up

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:19pm

Angela25

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Posted: Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:19pm

AP wrote on Thu Mar 7, 2024 4:10pm:
Wow who are you doctor know all
Finally keep your opinions to yourself not helpful and not interested

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Common sense. The hospital would be inundated with people who just had a problem with their medication. If they can't see their own doctor and it's very serious then that's different.