American woman told about her adventures in a Russian hospital
'19.08.2018'
Source: Zen.Yandex
Bridget admits that he does not like to see doctors. This is partly due to the fact that since childhood she was accustomed to endure all the difficulties with courage and courage, and partly because of the high cost of medical services in her native California.
However, there are cases when it is impossible to do without the help of medical workers.
Working in a large company Bridget is no stranger to official trips to different countries, says Zen.Yandex. She was to go to Russia on one of these trips. However, the week before, an unpleasant story happened to her. In the parking lot at the supermarket, she accidentally stepped on a bottle thrown away by someone and, having slipped, severely injured her knee. And everything would be fine, everyday life and no major problems. But the whole trouble was that the blood did not want to stop, besides a piece of glass had hit the wound.
Therefore, she still had to contact the local American emergency room, where, after an hour and a half of waiting in the emergency room, the doctor accepted her and performed all the necessary manipulations, removing the fragment, treating the wound and billing for its services in more than 10 000 dollars. Moreover, it turned out that her insurance does not cover minor household injuries. Despite not a small amount, her injury, as it turned out, is one of those.
Two weeks later, when the American was already in Russia, her knee began to hurt her unbearably and her temperature rose. But the American, heard from Russian colleagues about how bad medicine is in Russia, categorically did not want to contact our doctors.
One of her acquaintances, with whom Bridget had to do business there in Russia, also frightened the American with the “charms of Russian medicine” and persuaded her to suffer a little, but there was still a week left before returning to her American homeland.
And one morning she just could not get out of bed. The leg was very swollen and unbearably sore. And the temperature rose higher. Considering that she’s definitely not going to get worse anymore, and she has no choice, Bridget, with fear in her heart, dialed the emergency number on her mobile.
On the way to the hospital in an ambulance, a guest from across the ocean teased herself with hopes that maybe everything was not so bad as she thinks, and hoped that in case of necessary surgical intervention she could, as a friend advised, give a bribe doctor, so that she "at least made an anesthetic injection."
The emergency department turned out to be clean and bright, and disturbing thoughts slowly began to leave the American, because the fact that half of all ideas about Russian medicine were just a figment of her imagination, it became clear from the very first minutes of being in a medical institution.
It was not long to wait. In just a few minutes 15, the doctor, after examining her leg, sent an x-ray and stated that the matter was “very serious. It is fair to say that she was really lucky here, since the waiting time at the emergency department depends on the number of patients in the queue, and can sometimes take a very long time.
It turned out that $ 10 American doctors had left a piece of glass in her leg. As a result, inflammation began, with which the temperature and pain were associated. Doctors explained to Bridget that if she pulls on another time in such cases, she risks getting blood poisoning and, as a result, losing her life.
Before anesthetizing the leg, which caused so many problems, the fragment was removed, and the wound was cleaned. And yes, for this, no one even had to bribe. The American was glad that she was in Russia not as a tourist, but at work, because, in her opinion, medical services were probably very expensive for a foreigner, and she would definitely not get off with 10 dollars. And so, her employer issued her insurance upon entry to Russia.
What was her surprise when she later found out that her insurance company was billed for just 20 dollars.
“After my forced treatment at a Russian hospital, I experienced a feeling of vexation and irritation. Annoyed by the fact that she had spent huge amounts of money here in the USA, and for that amount I was almost taken to the grave with such a small detail as a tiny piece of glass. I experienced a lot of problems because of such nonsense. And I am annoyed because, having believed the stories of some people about the horrors of medicine, which in reality are not, I had to endure so much. ”
Now, remembering the warning of the Russian doctor, she tries to treat her health more responsibly. And her colleague, telling about all the horrors of our hospitals, told an American a lot of things terrible about Russia. But Bridget did not believe in her stories.
