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[biffinbridge]

I was just thinking about some of the funnier times I had when I lived in Poland and my experiences in Polish hospitals sprang to mind immediately.

Has anyone out there got a funny health experience story? ie:

1.) I once went to hospital for an x-ray of my foot and the radiologist x-rayed my chest by mistake.
2.) A nurse once took my trousers off while the doc was stitching up my nose.
3.) I once spent 3 weeks in a hospital ward in Poznan. Every morning all of us had to have injections in the arse and as there were no curtains around the beds we all had to kneel on our beds bare bummed, which caused an awful lot of laughter every morning.
4.) I always used to be a bit cheeky to the pretty professor, who walked around the hospital like the queen. One day she asked me to come into a little room and strip off. This I did thinking, here we go , only to be pushed naked through a second door into a lecture hall in front of about 50 trainee doctors as the human guinea pig.
5.) Because the food was so bad and we were on special diets, we used to get pizza delivered when the nurses weren't around.
6.) The night my ex-wife gave birth to my son, the baby monitor malfunctioned and I spent 11 hours telling her to stop exaggerating as the monitor said the baby wasn't coming. (She still brings that up).
7.) I once waited outside the dentist and this old boy was telling me what a good dentist this guy was. He changed his mind several hours later when he came out and was missing all of his front teeth.

ha ha ...makes me laugh just thinking about it. I must say I found the doctors there to be very good though.

[asgerd]

I was once (15 years ago) taken to an emergency clinic in Gdynia with a serious wound to my palm; the doctor, who was wobbly and I presume drunk, put in a couple of stitches, trapping a nerve. I was in unremitting agony for three days until a friend who was a paediatrician got me some drugs and later into a private children's hospital, where they dug around in my hand (all without anaesthetic) to remove the stitches. Permanent ulnar nerve damage... I'll never play the fiddle.

With a bit of money for private treatment and a little help from my school, I might have fared better, but I was living on fresh air in those days.

[dynow]

posts like this make me completely frightened. I've never been to a hospital/doctor yet in Poland. When I go to the US on vacation, I always visit the dentist, but I will be in Poland for about two straight years now before my next trip home, and I'm deathly afraid of letting anyone in Poland touch my teeth. I don't need any work done, just a routine cleaning every 6 months, but even that makes me scared. My parents paid alot of money to straighten out my teeth when I was young. I'd like them to stay that way.

[asgerd]

Sorry dynow. If it's any help I lodged at first with an oncologist who seemed to save a lot of her patients (and got paid in ducks sometimes - or I think that was a little thank you from a survivor.) Anyhow this was a long time ago.

Actually I see now that biffinbridge was looking for FUNNY stories... missed that bit.

[Master Shake]

A lot has changed in Poland in the last 10-15 years and I dont think the practice of medicine is any exception.

Still, I heard it is a good idea to give your anesthesiologist a 'bonus' before undergoing surgery to insure that after you don't wake up screaming in pain.

[simon_porter00]