Céret clinic - food for thought?
Posted: Tue 10 Mar 2015 11:18
by email
The reason I wanted to write to you was really to share my experience of staying in the Ceret Clinique last summer when I was in Amelie and felt really ill, being on my own had no choice but calling SAMU late one night.
After forty something seconds my phone call was answered, and after the initial conversation with the operator an ambulance came. They were very good, they took me to Ceret Clinique (Must say the bumpiest ride of my life from Amelie to Ceret.) I had the necessary checkups and blood tests and as the emergency nurse and then the doctor saw no immediate danger they kept me overnight at the same Clinique.
The following morning three doctors who were on duty did their visiting duty and one of them told me that I need to see a cardiologist to have further tests, their own cardiologist was on HOLIDAY!! And no replacement! Even though there was no immediate danger but the ECG that they took showed that I have had a heart attack sometime in the past of which I had never been aware of!! So not hard to imagine the worry that this news caused me.
To cut the story short after staying two more nights,(shared room, basic food)I was feeling better so I was discharged. Having the heart attack on mind I changed the flight date and flew back to London where I went to a heart hospital the next day of my arrival carrying all the test results from Ceret.
Looking at the same French ECG the British doctors could not see any sign of any previous heart attack. Had more tests done, all was normal. The heart specialists in London told me that those French doctors have made me worried and it was not fair.
Since then I have received the hefty hospital bill of which I paid almost 20percent of it and the rest was paid by the European insurance health cover.
As I still have my little pied a terre in Amelie and spend my holidays there, have decided that even if I am lying and dying would consider twice before going anywhere near a hospital. No disrespect to all doctors, nurses and the care assistants.
During my following visit there, when I paid my part of the bill in person, I told them about the doctors contradictions and asked if I could speak to someone but as you can guess I was told that I have to write a letter to the management, they will discuss it with the doctor. Unfortunately I still have not had time to do it.
Wishing all of us good health.
The reason I wanted to write to you was really to share my experience of staying in the Ceret Clinique last summer when I was in Amelie and felt really ill, being on my own had no choice but calling SAMU late one night.
After forty something seconds my phone call was answered, and after the initial conversation with the operator an ambulance came. They were very good, they took me to Ceret Clinique (Must say the bumpiest ride of my life from Amelie to Ceret.) I had the necessary checkups and blood tests and as the emergency nurse and then the doctor saw no immediate danger they kept me overnight at the same Clinique.
The following morning three doctors who were on duty did their visiting duty and one of them told me that I need to see a cardiologist to have further tests, their own cardiologist was on HOLIDAY!! And no replacement! Even though there was no immediate danger but the ECG that they took showed that I have had a heart attack sometime in the past of which I had never been aware of!! So not hard to imagine the worry that this news caused me.
To cut the story short after staying two more nights,(shared room, basic food)I was feeling better so I was discharged. Having the heart attack on mind I changed the flight date and flew back to London where I went to a heart hospital the next day of my arrival carrying all the test results from Ceret.
Looking at the same French ECG the British doctors could not see any sign of any previous heart attack. Had more tests done, all was normal. The heart specialists in London told me that those French doctors have made me worried and it was not fair.
Since then I have received the hefty hospital bill of which I paid almost 20percent of it and the rest was paid by the European insurance health cover.
As I still have my little pied a terre in Amelie and spend my holidays there, have decided that even if I am lying and dying would consider twice before going anywhere near a hospital. No disrespect to all doctors, nurses and the care assistants.
During my following visit there, when I paid my part of the bill in person, I told them about the doctors contradictions and asked if I could speak to someone but as you can guess I was told that I have to write a letter to the management, they will discuss it with the doctor. Unfortunately I still have not had time to do it.
Wishing all of us good health.