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Post by jackie on May 18, 2022 8:04:21 GMT 1
Worth trying Doctolib to find an Opthalmo for a precription. The benefits of this as opposed to just a sight test at an optician is that they test test eye health too, Glaucoma etc. You are then covered by your Carte Vitale and Mutuelle for the cost of specs...
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May 18, 2022 8:05:03 GMT 1
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Post by landmannnn on May 18, 2022 8:05:03 GMT 1
That is surely progress .. which, hopefully, will help cut down on the long waiting lists to see an Ophthalmologue which exists in some areas. OK, this is an opportune thread then to cite my situation: ten days ago, I visited one of these shops in Limoux. Half way through the free exam, she refused to go any further but told me to see an opthalmogue. Made an rev for today - 7 days after calling the hospital. RDV at 14.30. I had to wait ten minutes, then an eye exam from a young lady, then another test by another young lady, then the doctor took over, quickly told me cataracts etc etc and a risk if left etc etc. he sent me to his secretary who had all the paperwork ready for an rdv with an anaethetist on July 19, an operation date of 18 August for one eye and 1 Sept for the other. I left the hospital at 15.40. In an hour, a diagnosis and date for surgery, all without any fuss in a clean environment and no parking charges in the hospital car park! Compare this with the NHS where the paperwork will be lost, and a minimum wait of two years, and when finally it is all done, you go out to find your car clamped A good time to make a point that brexitland has it all wrong and France at least has it half right: In brexitland, I have a house in the Cotswolds that is appreciating at an alarming rate that I am refusing offers on. This in a country where the NHS is pretty awful with people waiting in corridors and in dying in ambulances. In France, I struggle to get a valuation on my property substantially more than I paid, despite spending a king's ransom to modernise it (btw, I am not complaining...) yet there are two hospitals nearby fully staffed by home grown medics, with two helicopters, a plethora of ambulances, and no one waiting or dying in corrodors. As the ad says, you do the math! And my friends marvel that I never want to set foot in brexitland again Both my mother and mother in law had cataracts done in the UK. Both went from diagnosis to having them done in less than 4 weeks.
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May 18, 2022 8:41:31 GMT 1
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Post by hal on May 18, 2022 8:41:31 GMT 1
What? On the NHS, for free?
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May 18, 2022 13:35:09 GMT 1
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Post by landmannnn on May 18, 2022 13:35:09 GMT 1
Yes.
Stories of people dying in corridors are the usual made up nonsense.
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Post by Aardvark on May 18, 2022 18:08:04 GMT 1
But people unable to get out of ambulances because there was no space in the hospital to receive them is/was fact. Suck it up.
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Post by Polarengineer on May 19, 2022 7:16:33 GMT 1
Aah but landmann, you forgot to say that was 1953
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May 19, 2022 8:27:44 GMT 1
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Post by landmannnn on May 19, 2022 8:27:44 GMT 1
🙂
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