Yes, AE, that is the one.
I think it was BienAmor who posted about that one. I think that Clinic Abreu just sends their patients over there.
I did find the entire medical system there a bit hard to navigate - but I learned a lot from my French friends who lived up in Las Terrenas. All the French up there go to Abreu.
My friends would come down to the Capital for their blood work every year - they said that they thought that the amobea lived on the microscopes up in LT. We Americans are not used to taking charge of our health care like that. But I learned.
I was quite sick a couple of times - once from sun exposure - a combo of sun plus meds I was taken which resulted in the sunburn getting WORSE as the time passed and a sense of burning inside - which sent me to Abreu for 4 days on a drip... Another for a who knows what infection which turned out to be both staph and strep - which took 8 days. At the end they gave me a sheaf of medical reports which included my white blood counts... the new doctor for a subsequent bladder infection looked at them and said "You are lucky that you did not die."
Oddly enough I had not felt that sick. Just that I wanted to go to bed and sleep... like forever and ever..Fortunately, my assistant insisted that we go to an internist at Abreu who insisted that I go inpatient.
Of course - I lived in the City - and would often travel out to the Campo on assignments and stay in places that most gringos there will never see -- I call it the "toilet seats optional trail" .
However, it is wise to treat small things seriously there.
The fact that one can not actually drink the water that one showers in ought to be warning enough.
Fortunately I had good local insurance. Unless things have changed, you have to buy the local insurance before you are 65 and there is only one company which will cover you after 70 without having you take another physical then. Otherwise you have to carry ExPat insurance which will be much pricier... That is for those who are living there full time.
I think that you said, AE, that Medicare covers some emergencies? Perhaps that is a Medicare advantage plan. My Medicare supplemental.
Any - I always travel with an American Express card which has no preset limit -- because..
well
one never ever knows...
I think it was BienAmor who posted about that one. I think that Clinic Abreu just sends their patients over there.
I did find the entire medical system there a bit hard to navigate - but I learned a lot from my French friends who lived up in Las Terrenas. All the French up there go to Abreu.
My friends would come down to the Capital for their blood work every year - they said that they thought that the amobea lived on the microscopes up in LT. We Americans are not used to taking charge of our health care like that. But I learned.
I was quite sick a couple of times - once from sun exposure - a combo of sun plus meds I was taken which resulted in the sunburn getting WORSE as the time passed and a sense of burning inside - which sent me to Abreu for 4 days on a drip... Another for a who knows what infection which turned out to be both staph and strep - which took 8 days. At the end they gave me a sheaf of medical reports which included my white blood counts... the new doctor for a subsequent bladder infection looked at them and said "You are lucky that you did not die."
Oddly enough I had not felt that sick. Just that I wanted to go to bed and sleep... like forever and ever..Fortunately, my assistant insisted that we go to an internist at Abreu who insisted that I go inpatient.
Of course - I lived in the City - and would often travel out to the Campo on assignments and stay in places that most gringos there will never see -- I call it the "toilet seats optional trail" .
However, it is wise to treat small things seriously there.
The fact that one can not actually drink the water that one showers in ought to be warning enough.
Fortunately I had good local insurance. Unless things have changed, you have to buy the local insurance before you are 65 and there is only one company which will cover you after 70 without having you take another physical then. Otherwise you have to carry ExPat insurance which will be much pricier... That is for those who are living there full time.
I think that you said, AE, that Medicare covers some emergencies? Perhaps that is a Medicare advantage plan. My Medicare supplemental.
Any - I always travel with an American Express card which has no preset limit -- because..
well
one never ever knows...
