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Male Health taken seriously in Ireland?

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  • #32
    loismustdie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭loismustdie


    dbnavan wrote:
    Have medical card so I didnt have to pay, might have a different attitude if I did pay him, thinking of reporting him, not sure if its worth the hassle.

    reporting him will be no more hassle than posting here about it because it obviously effected you which is understandable. the fact that you have a med card could well be the reason for his attitude but this is inexusable. imo you definitely have a case


  • #33
    Carrigart Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Carrigart Exile


    dbnavan wrote:
    Can anyone tell me is it normal for a guy in ireland at the age of 27, to go his GP, for a annual checkup, I have never been and after some discussion with my wife, who is american, she advised me that it would do know harm, so last week I made an appointment to go this morning....

    When I went in the doctor basically accused me of being a hypocondriac and there was no need for me to be "wasting his time", "and that the american way of life of annual checkups is only a way for doctors in the states to rip people off."

    When I told him I had never had an STD test, he said to me, "Oh now come on, its not like your sleeping around on your wife", no I havent but I have had sexual partners before meeting my wife, and anyway how the hell would he know?

    Sorry just needed to vent, took a morning of work for this and it bugged me all day,

    Actually male health is treated appaulingly by the state. Twenty thousand men a year die in the UK from prostrate cancer yet it is the least funded research of all the main cancers.


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