If you're looking for the stereotypical bad Dutch doctor experience, look no further. My husband…read morelikes them for some reason, because he was raised to be a medical masochist and receive no medical care unless he was basically dying. But I have higher standards for my medical professionals, such as them doing something, anything, and not just shrugging their shoulders at me when I come to them with issues.
Oh, and it would also be nice not to deal with receptionists who diagnose you over the phone and tell you that you don't need to come in. And then when you do insist on coming in, they harass you in the waiting room saying "There is nothing wrong with your child! Why are you here?" As if they got a full medical education sitting behind their desk and answering phones. Who needs to talk to an actual doctor when you can talk to a Dutch doctor's receptionist!
I went here for a few years in spite of the terrible care, due to not being able to find another good doctor in the neighborhood. But the straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I came in with bronchitis with my daughter. She received antibiotics and I was told that I do not have bronchitis so I received no medicine at all. I've had bronchitis several times in my life, I know what it looks like. A few days later I wasn't able to get out of bed anymore because the bronchitis had progressed to pneumonia. So I went back again for care, and asked why she hadn't given me antibiotics a few days before, because then I knew I had bronchitis, and if she did something back then my husband wouldn't need to be taking off of work to take care of me and our child, since I couldn't do anything anymore.
The younger doctor got very mad at me for even asking this question. She was so angry that she prescribed me an antibiotic that I was allergic to, and I didn't discover this until I had a bad rash all over my body! She knew I was allergic, it was in my file and on her computer screen, but she was too angry to do her job properly because I questioned her. Between the pneumonia and the allergic reaction I was in bed for most of a month for something that should have been a week or two of reduced activity at most. Because I couldn't take care of my small child anymore, my husband used up all his vacation time and ended up getting reduced salary for some of the days that he had to take off of work. It was a big mess, and it was basically for nothing. So I would steer clear of this medical practice if I were you. This is one of those times when something is not "better than getting a sharp stick in the eye".
