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Forum: Italy

Feb 14th 2011, 9:47 am

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

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Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

I agree with Lorna. When I had my baby I stupidly forked out to see private gynecologists but I should have gone public. It's not like my private gynae was actually at the birth anyway. I did most...

Forum: Italy

Jan 31st 2011, 10:08 am

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

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Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

Lorna - yes not ideal (I also had that experience after giving birth to my daughter here) but, also, to me, not worth thousands of euro a year for private health insurance just to avoid that...

Forum: Italy

Jan 31st 2011, 9:20 am

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

Views: 23,034

Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

I guess I've kind of gone native but I kind of got used to no privacy when I was in the hospital. Being in a 6 person room in cardiology most of the other women were elderly and had (what appeared...

Forum: Italy

Jan 30th 2011, 1:58 pm

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

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Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

Lorna - your experience doesn't sound that different from mine. I was in hospital for 7 weeks the last 5 of which were in a 6 bed room with no curtains etc. As I said Italian public hospitals are...

Forum: Italy

Jan 29th 2011, 8:27 pm

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

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Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

I guess my question would be - if these eminent doctors work in both the public and private hospitals- why not just go to the public hospital for free? When i was extremely sick with a...

Forum: Italy

Jan 27th 2011, 2:05 pm

Replies: 67

Italian healthcare

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Posted By gelato

Re: Italian healthcare

The sytem here (like everything in Italy) is loaded down with bureaucracy. However, I've had a major medical emergency, open heart surgery and a 2 month stay in a public hospital and I've also given...

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