Comments on: Least Favorite Places – Huisartsenpost

By: Isabella

Isabella — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:43:16 +0000

And what Melissa wrote above: LOL! Sooooo true! Isabellas last blog post... The Scoop on Sinterklaas

By: Isabella

Isabella — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:08 +0000

I’m far behind catching up with blogs. Got a lot of good reading to do here, I see! :-)

The dentist!!!! I have to go Friday..
My first experience at a Dutch dentist was this: The waiting room had 10 chairs and no good magazines for a girl to read but Vriendin. Not so bad, but.. My name was called rather quickly. I followed the dental assistant to the room where there was one chair. The assistant stopped me first by the lady who took my insurance information, which was in the same room. As I gave her my information & answered a few questions, I looked over to see the dentist was still working on a patient in the chair. He was pulling a tooth. The same patient had only been called back there some 5 minutes prior to me being called back, so 5 minutes seemed too short for tooth-pulling.. Or is this normal? ;-) The patient got up and left while I finished my insurance info-exchange. I had little time to make a run for it!

By: Sonya

Sonya — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Crap that really sucks! I wont go to a dentist here until my teeth start falling out. It pisses me off how things go here sometimes. We waited almost 3 hours in the ER when my son fell off of his bike and needed that special glu to close the gap up. After they admitted that they forgot about us we went back,the doctor stuck a tiny bandaid on his eye and gave the thumbs up sign. I was this close to giving him my own finger sign. Had we been back home I would have gone to the store and bought what we needed..now he has a scar above his eye. I have Tylenol Pm's from back home if he needs them. It's a pain killer plus sleep aid. I have tried so many sleep aids/pain killers here and nothing works for me. I need more than this candy ass homeopathic stuff they give you. I sure hope he feels better soon! I dont think they need to over medicate here but it sure would be nice to make my own choice sometimes in what I want to take. Sonyas last blog post... Crockpot Stuffed Peppers

By: Edith

Edith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:44:25 +0000

Lurker alert here :)

I’ve been hearing good things about this dentist:
http://www.sanasmile.nl/algemeen/vestigingen.php?lid=3
I still need to check them out myself, but maybe it’s something to consider next time…

By: Chantalle

Chantalle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:51:07 +0000

When I lived in Holland for a year (the most miserable year of my life, and I am Dutch), our huisarts refused to take a look at my then 5 year old brother's ear infection. Needless to say, my mom drove us all to Brussels where we were immediately helped by our doctor there. Chantalles last blog post... Horses

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:23:34 +0000

Having successfully avoided the dentist for 26 years and counting, I have no right to say anything except whenever I break the dentist drought will be a DOOZY of an appointment… but I’ve already starting lining up dentist referrals to prepare for that day.

By: Zhu

Zhu — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:12:32 +0000

Wow, not very understanding!

I hate the “it’s your fault you should have taken care of (insert whatever problem you have) earlier” blahblahblah. Humans are not machines. We KNOW we screw up sometimes!

By: Decora

Decora — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:52 +0000

I so hate the huisarts here. I understand that they like to stray away from medicating someone so quick. So I guess if your near falling into a coma or near deaths door, would be a valid reason to belive a person is in great pain. The people behind the desk DO sit around and drink to much friggen coffee understand anything. Decoras last blog post... Granny gone wild

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:19:20 +0000

Oh god I hate the dentist as well. Its the worst day of my life every year when I have to go to my yearly checkup.. I always seem to have a small hole or some flak that needs to be removed.. But damn! you guys had a hard time getting some decent painkillers. I truly feel sorry for you Xander. I usually only call the office of my regular doctor to get a prescription, and they just fax it to the local pharmacy down the street where I live. I seriously would have flipped out if something like this would have happened to me. Eriks last blog post... Blog image issue

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:59:46 +0000

Ugh I spent last Sunday at the huisartsen post with a killer ear infection that was bad enough that it had made my salivary glands infected... but the doctor didn't want to give me antibiotics because I didn't have pus oozing into my mouth yet!! I was about to kill someone. I find nagging and refusing to leave until you are dealt with in a proper manner seems to work *L* Kims last blog post... Texel- A Week in Review