podgerodge
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My GP never charged me for some follow-up consultations relating to a single event/condition/episode in the past. Not sure if it was policy or just him playing it by ear. Shop around?To give you the positive spin, my sister took her 9yr old to the doctor just before christmas and paid the usual €50. she returned with her 5yr old a week later with a differnet complaint and he didn't charge anything at all because she had only been in the previous week!. So fair play to that doc.
...my sister took her 9yr old to the doctor just before christmas and paid the usual €50. she returned with her 5yr old a week later with a differnet complaint ...So fair play to that doc.
Fair play to him??? I think not, it should have been a given that your Friend wouldn't have to pay.
I think you were naive, I had a bad throat infection and went to doctor paid 50Euro, took what he told me to take 4 days later not better, back I go to him with my still same bad throat, more medicine and then he asked for 50euro again.To which I said no I gave you 50Euro already 4 days ago for the same aliment and I got no better, so I think I am right not to pay again to which he said simply ok. I have since said this to others who also had to go again for same issue and did not pay, some where not even asked to pay againI met him in the guise of my new doctor:
28th Dec - visited doc, diagnosed with chest infection - sick cert and antibiotic given. I ask how much - 50 euro.
3rd Jan - return visit - still not cleared up - 2 minutes later prescription for more antibiotic given.
I ask " how much "
He says "Ahhhh, sure you were only with me a few days ago, and sure it's Christmas when all is said and done - and you haven't had a good one have you......Let's say.........40 euro"
God love his generosity!!
A different child with a different complaint? Why should it be a given that the friend wouldn't have to pay?
hehe thought i might get a reply like that from you!
i would look at it another way - not a 20% discount but his fault in the first place for wrongly diagnosing how much antibiotic I would require 5 days earlier - as it is only for this reason that I had to return. I should not have had to pay anything like 40 euro when there was no new diagnosis involved! I won't even mention "rip off" !
hehe thought i might get a reply like that from you!
i would look at it another way - not a 20% discount but his fault in the first place for wrongly diagnosing how much antibiotic I would require 5 days earlier - as it is only for this reason that I had to return. I should not have had to pay anything like 40 euro when there was no new diagnosis involved! I won't even mention "rip off" !
If you were just returning to see him for more antibiotic then you should have just asked his secretary to arrange an additional script for an extra three or four days, they'd unlikely have charged you! Or you could have just asked the doctor to ring you when he gets a minute, again you'd likely save the 40e!
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