Doctors' appointments

[MAD87]

All the above underlines how lucky we are here (and in our 2 previous communes). Our (official) MT is of 4 in a commune of 2500, who looks after OH and I, my older son and his partner, and SIL and his mother (none of whom live here). The last 4 are apparently treated on the basis that they're"extended family", whereas 3 can't find their own MTs. My unofficial MT reports changes in dosages to my dr., otherwise they spend 30 mins talking about the mess the medical profession is in. That mess was forecast decades ago, but the profession itself stopped any increase in students until Hollande's(?) government stepped in. Too little, too late, and doctors currently practising are exhausted.

[Headers]

Our MT is old school. The waiting room regulates the wait. If it’s empty, you’re next. If it’s full you go away and come back if it’s not an urgent issue. He spends about 20 mins with each patient. He is retiring soon. We will be ‘in the merde’ when he goes.

[Polarengineer]

I remember that in Holland one would enter a waiting area and ask “who was last in” so that you could wait your turn. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what we were waiting for, Doctor, Dentist, bus, bank. There was no appointment that I recall.