Doctor in Burgos or Leon

[Amori]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

 

[SabsP]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

Good luck with your search.

I see that last year you had a similar question. The answers that were given then are still valid. All will depend on your insurance status and country of origin ( EHIC or not ).

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/doctors-in-santiago.77221/

 

[Robo]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

I would just go to the local health centre (centro de salud)
many of the doctors speak English or are very good with google translate!
Depending where you are from there may be no fee or at worst a small one.

 

[Dan McNerney]

I went to a doctor in Burgos at the health clinic. The doctor didnt speak english but google translate helped. Paid 98 euros on a credit card.

 

[henrythedog]

Pick a big pharmacy - helpfully Burgos and Leon have plenty - the staff will be helpful and English will be spoken. They’ll point you in the right direction.

 

[Tincatinker]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

Ah. You’re looking for a doctor that’ll write a prescription for prescription level drugs yet who has no access to the medical history of the patient and is prepared to prescribe without conducting all the standard enquiries and tests. Those sort of doctors don’t come cheap.

You may find a pharmacist prepared to fulfill a certified prescription from your partner’s own medical practitioner but that’s probably going to require certified translations of both the prescription and any supporting letter.

If you’re partner is dependent on getting a supply then I suggest an urgent conversation with your travel and health insurers to seek their assistance. Wandering the centro salud and pharmacies looking for a bargain is not going to resolve the issue

 

[truenorthpilgrm]

Talk to your healthcare provider back home. There's another link on this forum re filling international prescriptions, but rules and regulations most likely have changed. The main takeaway from that thread is: know what you need to do re filling medical prescriptions before leaving home.

And....a "cheap doctor" rec? Again, hopefully your healthcare insurance back home can assist you on how to navigate cost reimbursements.

good luck with your search

 

[Pathfinder075]

I hate to say it, but the best way to get a prescription abroad is to take enough medication that you don't need to get one. If you are walking for 7 weeks, then you need 7 weeks supply of any and all medications you need.

The other thing to take is a photocopy of a prescription showing all your medications and take all the boxes they came in and fold them flat, then bury them in the back of your rucksack somewhere. It's much easier to show a pharmacist that copy and the box the medication came in, than try to google translate your way out of it.

So some places will have a red cross centre / caretas. Sometimes medical help can be found at them. This year I happened to be in Lourdes for a couple of days at the end of my Camino and developed a bad abscess. I got help at the red cross centre there using google translate and my schoolboy French. Another year i had to hit a hospital to get what I needed.

Good Luck.

 

[trecile]

If you are walking for 7 weeks, then you need 7 weeks supply of any and all medications you need.

I always take about a week's extra, just in case!

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

Marianne forgot one of here meds last year. We contacted our doctor and she mailed us a prescription. Printed it and wend to the farmacia , paid €1,40 and she had here meds.

 

[J Willhaus]

Yes, very different experiences depending on where you are from and what kind of coverage you have or don't have.

 

[Stephan the Painter]

Hey, I am looking for any recommendations for English speaking doctors in Burgos or Leon. My partner needs a prescription for his meds. Ideally it should also be a cheap doctor.

Thanks

You should definitely just try to walk into a pharmacy first. If you have a copy or an image from your prescription or the old bottle and you can show it to the pharmacist, they might just do it. Someone at a pharmacy will usually speak English. Maybe find out the Spanish phrase for "refill a prescription" and write it down.

If they can't do it, they can probably recommend a clinic nearby to see a doctor.

In my experience hospitals are more expensive than if you could just talk to someone in a private doctor's office.

Of course, if you don't have any prescription documentation, it'll be much more difficult and expensive. Good luck and let us know what happens to help the next person.

 

[Amori]

Hey, he has the prescription and he did try but it didn’t work.

 

[Amori]

Ah. You’re looking for a doctor that’ll write a prescription for prescription level drugs yet who has no access to the medical history of the patient and is prepared to prescribe without conducting all the standard enquiries and tests. Those sort of doctors don’t come cheap.

You may find a pharmacist prepared to fulfill a certified prescription from your partner’s own medical practitioner but that’s probably going to require certified translations of both the prescription and any supporting letter.

If you’re partner is dependent on getting a supply then I suggest an urgent conversation with your travel and health insurers to seek their assistance. Wandering the centro salud and pharmacies looking for a bargain is not going to resolve the issue

He has the scipt from Australia and he had every imaginable test done as his condition is rare. But he said he tried to get it filled at a pharmacy and they refused him. When I can talk to him again I will tell him to try again. We have been traveling for over a year now and I am back home and he wanted to walk. So I am not there to help him out. In other countries they filled it without any questions as it is very specific meds. Will see what he can do.

 

[Stephan the Painter]

Hey, he has the prescription and he did try but it didn’t work.

As you said, I would try another pharmacy, but if it doesn't work this is a hospital in Leon with international services and english speakers. At least one other person on this forum used it successfully:

Hospital en el centro de León | HM San Francisco

El Hospital HM San Francisco se encuentra ubicado en el centro de León, lo que permite su fácil acceso tanto a pie como a través de cualquier medio de transporte. Somos su Salud.

www.hmsanfrancisco.es

From what I understand walking into a hospital as a non-EU resident typically costs between 100 - €250.

 

[Tincatinker]

He has the scipt from Australia and he had every imaginable test done as his condition is rare. But he said he tried to get it filled at a pharmacy and they refused him. When I can talk to him again I will tell him to try again. We have been traveling for over a year now and I am back home and he wanted to walk. So I am not there to help him out. In other countries they filled it without any questions as it is very specific meds. Will see what he can do.

If he has a valid scrip, and some, any, supporting documents it may well just be a case of keep trying farmacias . The issues will be if it’s a drug licensed in Spain/EU and whether they hold / can obtain stock.
If he has successfully obtained the prescription in other EU countries that issue is reduced but the common usage and stock availability remains. If he finds he’s refused by half-a-dozen farmacias he has a problem this forum can’t resolve. My experience in Spain is that pharmacists will dispense a valid prescription.

My previous comment was to emphasize that no medical professional is going to write a prescription without being confident that the prescription is appropriate to the patient. Their career depends on that and their professional standards require it.

Lady Isabella Frankau took a different view: look what that did for Marianne Faithful, Chet Baker and many others

Edited because AI supported spellcheck is still lacking in common sense