Today I saw a doctor for fifteen minutes. Guess what that costed me? 300 SEK! That’s about 28€. That may not sound like a lot of money and compared to medical bills in other countries (hello USA) it’s probably not much. It is in Sweden though.
I know that I have a maximum of 45 minutes with the doctor so if I stayed for 45 minutes it would be 100 SEK (9€) per fifteen minutes. Which still is a lot. Now I only stayed for fifteen minutes though so my visit costed me 20 SEK (2€) a minute! I wish they had charged me per minute instead. Or even better, that I had talked to the doctor on the phone instead because this visit was pointless. We talked about my medicine, she said we’ll continue with the same dose and gave me new prescriptions and that was that. Well that’s 300 well spent!
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Prescritions should be done over the phone, the doctors really don´t have anything to say and really; do they have the time to really take a real discussion? You only have to show up beacuse they want to look nice if someone looks into their work. That´s the way I see it, not very positive, haha.
i dunno how much that is converted to usd, but since you’re making it sound so bad im sure it a lot. -.-” do you have insurance? why are you taking medicine? take care!
In France the prices are more or less the same.
Im not sure what its like in Sweden, but the Health System here is pretty cool because the government reimburses you any money you spent on health even when buying contact lenses! (if you pay your taxes).
In Malta its even better because you can find free doctors and free medicine!!
oh and i hope your illness isn’t too serious.
p.s. nice blog//
wow that’s sick, We are so “proud” of our healthcare here, but it’s just getting more and more expensive. And vårdcentraler are just not giving the service they should. gah.I’ts scary. Maybe we will go outside of sweden for better medical treatment in the future.
In NZ it costs me about $15 NZD each time I see the doc. It’s not much compared to what you have to pay!
That’s about 7 euro or something.
But it only costs that much if you “sign up” with a particular clinic. Like you only get their discount, if you go to another clinic it’ll cost you like $70 or so.
I may not know the equivalent of that amount here in our country but it really sounds that you’ve just wasted your money there. To think that you only talked about your medicine. Wow.
Yeah, I guess. Thanks for your encouragement!
Wow, that does sound crazily expensive!