Joe suffers from nosebleeds. They always occur
during the night and are worse during the summer months and at the
moment he is having three or four a week
Our doctor has recommended an operation. I am not keen.
Yesterday I made an appointment with a different doctor. We have found that with most things… if there are two ways of doing something, the French will do it one way, the English another and usually the best way would be to amalgamate the two practices !!.. This is true with the medical care. The bureaucracy involved in setting up the paperwork to allow you to get into the French medical system is HUGE… it took us about four years but once you are in, the care is second to none. For example, doctors tend to work on their own, there are not the huge practices that you get in the UK. In France you are not tied to a particular doctor and of course, doctors specialise or have interests in various areas of medicine, so you could and people do, see one GP for their arthritic problems another for controlling asthma and perhaps another for their diabetes. This is all perfectly normal. Of course the risk here that your medical notes are all over the place and it is the patents responsibility to advise each doctor what medication they are taking.
Well, I heard of a doctor in Caro, he is a conventional GP but he also advises on homeopathy and alternative medicine. So off we go.
I follow the directions and find this building. Could this be the surgery?, Yes, there is a plaque by the door.
We go in. The building is deserted. The front door leads straight into a deserted waiting room.
Does anyone know we are here? Whilst we wait I look around. On the
notice board there is a list of services that the doctor provides. I
gather that his wife is a midwife and she offers post natal and
gynecological services as well.
Another huge difference in France, is that you have to pay for each
consultation but most/all of the charges can be claimed back. Hypnosis
and verruca removal are also offered !!..
After five minutes the doctor arrives and we are led into his office. He examines Joe and prescribes two sorts of Arnica for the nosebleeds. He notices that Joe also suffers from hay fever and offers two different sorts of homeopathic granules for his hay fever instead of the conventional medicine he is currently using. He advised, homeopathy doesn’t work for everyone or for every condition, for example, he explains I do not recommend homeopathic treatments for lowering blood pressure but we can try it for hay fever and if it doesn’t work Joe can go back to the conventional treatment.
I am impressed with this doctor, he seems to be effectively combining conventional and alternative medicine.
We go to the pharmacy and leave with 4 brightly coloured tubes of homeopathic granules which (as with all conventional medicines) are free of charge (this applies to adults as well).
We now have to wait and see if the nosebleeds stop…..
Our doctor has recommended an operation. I am not keen.
Yesterday I made an appointment with a different doctor. We have found that with most things… if there are two ways of doing something, the French will do it one way, the English another and usually the best way would be to amalgamate the two practices !!.. This is true with the medical care. The bureaucracy involved in setting up the paperwork to allow you to get into the French medical system is HUGE… it took us about four years but once you are in, the care is second to none. For example, doctors tend to work on their own, there are not the huge practices that you get in the UK. In France you are not tied to a particular doctor and of course, doctors specialise or have interests in various areas of medicine, so you could and people do, see one GP for their arthritic problems another for controlling asthma and perhaps another for their diabetes. This is all perfectly normal. Of course the risk here that your medical notes are all over the place and it is the patents responsibility to advise each doctor what medication they are taking.
Well, I heard of a doctor in Caro, he is a conventional GP but he also advises on homeopathy and alternative medicine. So off we go.
The Doctors surgery?
We go in. The building is deserted. The front door leads straight into a deserted waiting room.
The waiting room..... we wait.
The Doctors' price list
After five minutes the doctor arrives and we are led into his office. He examines Joe and prescribes two sorts of Arnica for the nosebleeds. He notices that Joe also suffers from hay fever and offers two different sorts of homeopathic granules for his hay fever instead of the conventional medicine he is currently using. He advised, homeopathy doesn’t work for everyone or for every condition, for example, he explains I do not recommend homeopathic treatments for lowering blood pressure but we can try it for hay fever and if it doesn’t work Joe can go back to the conventional treatment.
I am impressed with this doctor, he seems to be effectively combining conventional and alternative medicine.
We go to the pharmacy and leave with 4 brightly coloured tubes of homeopathic granules which (as with all conventional medicines) are free of charge (this applies to adults as well).
We now have to wait and see if the nosebleeds stop…..
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