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In reply to the discussion: There's a huge scab on on the left side of Trump's forehead. * [View all]DFW
(60,464 posts)"Wer ist hier der Artzt, Sie oder ich?"
"Who is the doctor here, you or me?"
We have taken great pains (and a lot of time) to seek out doctors here who do NOT have that attitude, but it isn't easy, and my wife, as a "second class" patient under the German system, gets the "stand in line with the rest of the cattle" treatment unless she can convince the doctor's appointments secretary of the urgency of her case. With her cancer last year, the diagnosing doctor luckily got on the case himself, as he recognized that she had a rare and usually fatal form of cancer in its initial stage. She lucked out that time, got treated and operated on by a top specialist with 20 days instead of 12 weeks, and that alone is probably the only reason I still have her with me today.