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Wiz:

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I have heard the above comment time after time from many posters and I would like to ask the question.

What is your experience and opinion about Russian Doctors and Health care in Russia?

Please make comments from your own experience and not from “hear say”….

Thanks.

mendeleyev:
Wiz, my parents were medical missionaries so I've seen all sorts of medical facilities.  My first experience in a Russian style hospital was in the centre of Moscow, in what was advertised as "one of the finest" facilities in Russia.

My stepdaughter had a soccer injury and so the free ambulance arrived and we hopped in and rode with her to the hospital.  With a sprained ankle no ambulance was necessary but my wife insisted.  After all, it was provided by the government.  Free.  Okay.........

Upon arrival to "one of Moscow's finest" we were ushered into the emergency room with concrete floors, cinderblock walls, 14 foot ceilings, and 1960s style wiring and plumbing fixtures.  I saw very little of the modern sanitary supplies and examination equip which would have been expected in any western facility.  

Soon a young doc arrived and he struck me as a very intelligent and educated young doctor.  However his ability to diagnose with modern equipment was almost nonexistent.  In flawless English he apologized that the x-ray machine was shared by 3 Moscow hospitals and that week was stationed at one of the other facilities.  He offered to have the ambulance transport us there if we wished.  

When it was time to wrap and stablize her injury before we left for home he announced after about a 15 minute search that there were no supplies to wrap her ankle.  So we would have to visit a neighborhood "Apteka" (pharmacy) to find the proper supplies. Other than a flashlight, reflex hammer, blood pressure cuff, thermometer and stethoscope on his table, he had very little in the way of modern treatment "technology" at his disposal.

My second visit was also in Moscow to a convalesent facility to visit one of my mother-in-laws elderly friends who had fallen and broken her hip.  We entered a very old and run-down facility.  It was clean but I honestly doubt that it could meet medical licensing requirements in any western country.  

With the elevator ("lift") not working we hiked up 5 or 6 floors via the stairway and entered her room.  The furniture was old.  Very old and sparse.  The mattress on her bed clearly sagged and I wondered how a hip injury could correctly heal with such a sagging mattress.

At that time in the evening there was adequate steam heat from the room radiator but she told us that nights could get very cold.

Donhollio:
  Can anyone tell me what a native Russian speaker would earn monthly/annually being a radiologist in Russia?

Larry:
Don,

I'll bet the income will vary wildly depending on things such as whether the radiologist works in a high-end private hospital in a large city or a government run hospital. 

One of my ex-girlfriend's mother was the head of a department in a hospital in a medium-sized city in Belarus and she made between $350 and 400/month.  A few years ago I talked to a young doctor in Siberia who told me her salary was only $200/month.  But I suspect a lot of doctors there make better salaries.

JayH:

--- Quote from: Wiz on August 17, 2007, 02:08:29 AM ---

Please make comments from your own experience and not from “hear say”….

Thanks.

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Your trying to destroy the fabric of the forum-- all the "experts" are here -just ask them !!

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