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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)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.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 always take about a week's extra, just in case!If you are walking for 7 weeks, then you need 7 weeks supply of any and all medications you need.
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.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.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
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.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
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:Hey, he has the prescription and he did try but it didn’t work.
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.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.