I agree with this, and I find that they have a certain level of arrogance which makes them unable to look outside of their own perspective or even consider they might be wrong.
I don't speak German well at all and it was so clear my doc there would pretend to understand my english over just ask for me to repeat or try in german then he'd give me the wrong meds/make appointments i didnt need etc
Lol, that's completely my experience as well. I'm not german either, and I speak english with doctors. One doctor was not telling me if he could understand or not. But he wrote on the report to my GP: "I can't understand him well, because he has a bad english". Totally arrugant and unprofessional; I work with people from many countries, from USA to China. And I have no problem in being understood even from native speakers.
But I had the same issue with other 2 doctors that clearly told me: your english is so bad that I have problems to understand you.
Well, the problem is that they have never left their own country, so they only understand the german pronunciation of english.
My opinion about these doctors is that if they aren't able to speak english fluently, their medical knowledge is also extremely limited, because they have probably never updated their knowledge following the international medical research in their specialization (which is always in english). So they are probably unsuitable to follow highly complex medical problems.
Yes he did. But I shoved all the referals in a bookcase and waited till they expired because the thought of doing these exams and getting sick for nothing gives me panic attacks TT
Yes. Once a problem patient, always a problem patient. Not going to delve into my history but if they can read all about the stuff I u s e d. to do, then I can see how they would treat me as crazy because basically I shat in my own papers? If only I knew better than to put my problems on display and burn all bridges??
And I encountered doctors like this and even worse, yet they have all positive reviews? Theres a serious vendetta towards me or some serious bribes going on
Im sorry that I keep replying and replying but I just cant deal with this x.x
What is expired? The referrals to other doctors? I'm not sure that those have an expiration, since you can also take direct appointments with specialists without those cards.
Usually cards to buy drugs in pharmacy (all the drugs that are not "over the counter" and that are discounted by health insurance) do last for 2 weeks. But I'm quite sure that I didn't have problems even when I bought the drugs later than 2 weeks.