doctor = arzt, art = kunst
so i thought the snow was done...nope!
woke up to falling snow and a fresh layer on top of what is now about 2 feet. dude. that's a bang load of snow.
i went to the doctor. before i describe my personal experience, let me tell you of the awesomeness that is the german health care system.
first, i pay about 45 euro a month for health insurance. this is a student price [read:way cheap], my german teacher said that normal health insurance can cost up to 300 euro a month per person. but.
the thing is that when i(or anyone else) go to a doctor i pay 10 euro. it doesn't matter what i'm there for, i pay 10 euro as an entry fee. for the next 3 months, this 10 euro is still paying for me. so i can go 2 times a day for the next 3 months and it doesn't cost anything extra.
then, when they prescribe you drugs. we pay only for the fee of writing the prescription, which is 5 euro. it doesn't matter what it is. it could be aids medication, it could be for the ebola virus, whatever, 5 euro. then that's it. i don't have to pay for the actual medication. just this 5 euro for them to print out a prescription. it's actually free from the doctor, i take the prescription to a pharmacy and pay the 5 euro there. it's so damn cheap.
so i went and i payed my 10 euro entry fee. and then i went into a little room and sat on a chair and a doctor in jeans and a t-shirt, looking no older than 35 comes in and asks me what's up. so we spoke in english because i'm a wimp.
this man didn't take my temperature, he didn't swab my throat, he didn't even check my blood pressure. okay, for my eeeentire life, every single time i've gone to a doctor, they've taken my height, weight, blood pressure, and listened to my heart. i didn't even take my coat off the entire time i was in this office.
i told him that i thought i had strep. he looked at my throat and said, "yeah, you're probably right. are you allergic to penicilyn?"
then after he wrote the prescription, he checked to see that my glands are swollen.
this is opposite of most german processes. i was expecting him to take some dna samples or something.
nikki
woke up to falling snow and a fresh layer on top of what is now about 2 feet. dude. that's a bang load of snow.
i went to the doctor. before i describe my personal experience, let me tell you of the awesomeness that is the german health care system.
first, i pay about 45 euro a month for health insurance. this is a student price [read:way cheap], my german teacher said that normal health insurance can cost up to 300 euro a month per person. but.
the thing is that when i(or anyone else) go to a doctor i pay 10 euro. it doesn't matter what i'm there for, i pay 10 euro as an entry fee. for the next 3 months, this 10 euro is still paying for me. so i can go 2 times a day for the next 3 months and it doesn't cost anything extra.
then, when they prescribe you drugs. we pay only for the fee of writing the prescription, which is 5 euro. it doesn't matter what it is. it could be aids medication, it could be for the ebola virus, whatever, 5 euro. then that's it. i don't have to pay for the actual medication. just this 5 euro for them to print out a prescription. it's actually free from the doctor, i take the prescription to a pharmacy and pay the 5 euro there. it's so damn cheap.
so i went and i payed my 10 euro entry fee. and then i went into a little room and sat on a chair and a doctor in jeans and a t-shirt, looking no older than 35 comes in and asks me what's up. so we spoke in english because i'm a wimp.
this man didn't take my temperature, he didn't swab my throat, he didn't even check my blood pressure. okay, for my eeeentire life, every single time i've gone to a doctor, they've taken my height, weight, blood pressure, and listened to my heart. i didn't even take my coat off the entire time i was in this office.
i told him that i thought i had strep. he looked at my throat and said, "yeah, you're probably right. are you allergic to penicilyn?"
then after he wrote the prescription, he checked to see that my glands are swollen.
this is opposite of most german processes. i was expecting him to take some dna samples or something.
nikki