Health

Hey world :) I'm sorry, I didn't write articles because I was very busy, here at school we are doing the period of recovery for the students that have bad grades in any subject, so students that are good at school must explain to these students all the topics of the year, so we must study a lot, like 300 page by subject, and all days we must " teach" to this guys :D Well I want to write about health in Italy making a comparison with America because one day you know I'd like to live in America so I must know the rules of health :)
In Italy if you are sick you must go to your family doctor, that you choose near your town and you go there for prescription and for  visits of little importance, you go there if you have a cough or influenza or other little problems, or you go there if you want do a special visit by other doctors. This visit are free, you don't pay this doctors but they have a salary of about 4.000 euros. If you go by other doctor, visits aren't cheap! Is the opposite are too expensive and usually when you go by this doctors, you don't have the answers that you would like to have. Usually this doctors are surface and always they seem angry! I don't know why but for this I'm afraid from them! Some times ago at tv people talked about a doctor that in an operation has left a gauze in the belly of the sick! They are crazy! A lot of doctors pay their teacher to switch some exams or they know the right people to overtake the students that are better then them, so when you go to do a visit you can find a bad doctor. But not all doctors are so bad, sometimes if you are lucky you can find a real doctor. When you go to do a special visits by these private doctors, as a minimum you pay 100 euros and often this doctors  visit you for 5 minutes. But differently from USA if you go to the hospital you don't pay nothing, but when you go out from the ospital all the visits that you do you must pay a ticket for them. Like if you broke your elbow and doctors put it on a plaster when you must remove it you pay 50 euros. So isn't true that in Italy health is free! And drugs are expensive! While when I travelled with my parents in Danmark and Norway I had otitis and I was very sick, so we went by a doctor and we tought that we would pay a lot of money but at the end of the visit and with the drugs we paid around 20 euros, If I remember right in their money are 27 or 30! This doctor was very nice and good and patient, because he explained to them all in english and he repeated all what we didn't understand.
In America if you broke your elbow you pay around 500$ if you have insurance, without this you pay 7.000$
Well I don't know if in America doctors are good or not, but I hope so!


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