Who comes to Majorca and falls ill there or suffers an accident, must not fear to be supplied badly. The Spanish health service (Insalud) works at a high level, the achievements of the doctors and medical centres are recognised.
Moreover, there are more and more German doctors lowered on Majorca and dentists.


Insalud
Who officially works on Majorca, is integrated into the system of the Insalud and can take up as with us ¬ by electronically readable insurance map all by contract promised achievements. Nevertheless, they are relatively low and limited in the essentials to the medical basic care.


Every kind of dental-medical treatment and set of dentures are to be secured, e.g., basically privately. If a Spaniard feels severely ill, he goes as first to one sucked. Centre de salute (health centre), from the Mallorquinern also Ambulatorio called. These centres have family doctor's function and serve as an issuing department for certain current medicaments.


Though the medical costs are carried by the Insalud, but the patient must buy many drugs in a Farmacia (chemist's shop) himself; on it there are partial Insalud discounts up to 50%. If the patient must consult a specialist, the transfer of the patient occurs through the doctors in the Centro. With emergencies, at night and on the week-end insured persons may turn to Insalud also directly to the provisional accommodation of the hospitals of Son Dureta or Son Llatzer in Palma.


Waiting periods
The centralised system brings waiting periods with itself. One must wait for the appointment for an operation often about one to half a year: Hundreds of Mallorquiner are on the waiting list constantly. Also for investigations, not outpatiently in the so-called. Ambulatorios or with lowered doctors can be carried out, the waiting period amounts in many cases more than one month. However, this does not concern private-insured.

German doctors on Majorca the situation
Beside the Spanish doctors practised in 2005 more than 100 German doctors on Majorca who cover almost all fields of the ophthalmologist up to the urologist and are taken up basically by tourists and which more than 50,000 German resident. These may be glad equipped practise about ¬ in comparison to practise of the Spanish doctors who settle accounts with the Insalud ¬ mostly modern.


Also for the astonishingly high number to unhappy among the resident who could not find on Majorca her private paradise and dedicate themselves to the alcohol or drugs abuse which suffer from depressions, neuroses or psychoses is provided thanks to several practise for psychotherapy.
After fields and regional distribution jointed topical lists of the German or German-speaking doctors practising on Majorca (and dentists) one finds in the weekly papers Majorca magazine and Majorca newspaper.


One hears from many German doctors that she arranged, primarily, frustration about the home health politics to go to Majorca. Some have renounced not only high incomes, but also, nevertheless, on respect, you were often owners of big practise or heads of department. They have exchanged the frustration for free-enterprise freedom, quite knowingly that they would get worse financially.


Konkurenz
None of the German doctors on Majorca is with the state Spanish health insurance Insalud a contract doctor.

Hence, privately paying patients are strongly courted in consideration of the high density of medical care. And thus practising, especially German doctors switch privately constantly remarkable newspaper announcements and list in it her achievement offer (what is prohibited doctors and dentists in Germany).

Hotel doorkeepers bluntly demand baksheesh of the doctor whom they have called by order of the patient. Doctors, the patients in a private clinic or to a private doctor transfer, should have taken the money supposedly for this service up to 15% of the whole calculation, reported Majorca magazine. This is denied meanwhile as stubbornly as unsuccessfully.

Costs and allowance
Differently than in Germany there is in Spain no firm tariff system for doctors; the prize creation of the medical achievement is widely free. A general-medical treatment costs approx. 50€, specialists require approx. 75€. Apparative and surgical special achievements are specially calculated.

The patients must pay private calculations first from own pocket. The private assurance refunds the laid out amounts according to the respective rate terms all or part.


Group practices
Conspicuously the group practices are a German doctor which present themselves with striking announcements in Majorca newspaper or in Majorca magazine and with own advertising-effective websites on the Internet.


Ambulant care
According to information of the medical association of the Balearic Islands more than 2,000 Spanish doctors on Majorca, most practise of it privately. The ambulant medical basic care occurs in called ¬ more than 100 over the whole island distributed ¬ Ambulatorios or Centros de Salud. The general doctors practising there closely work together with specialists who pursue single practise or have got together in group practices.


State hospitals on Majorca
Centres of the medical care on Majorca are the great hospitals of Son Dureta (971 175000) in the western suburb of Son Armadans in the street after genetic ova / Calvia not far from the ring highway around Palma (Carrer Andrea Doria) and Son Llatzer in the street to Manacor (to the east of the ring highway, 971 202000), some kilometres beyond the town. Their outpatient clinic stations and first-aid stations are taken round-the-clock. However, some state that the patients were fixed up there like on the production line.

Beside Son Dureta and Son Llatzer there is still the medical centre in Manacor (971 847000), only in 1997 a gap in the stationary care of the middle and eastern part the island castle.


These three are contract hospitals for all patients of the state Spanish health insurance Insalud.


There are problems meanwhile not seldom with the notification. Who assumes as a German patient from the fact that one bumps in hospitals of Majorca, by analogy with the tourist service area, everywhere in German speaking staff, is mistaken. Own Spanish knowledge or with looking members or friends is inalienable here.


Private clinics on Majorca
Beside the state medical centres, Centros de to Salud and specialists who (also) work for the Insalud there are on Majorca several private hospitals, partly under German management. All these medical centres own a good reputation. The education of the staff as well as the technical equipment correspond to international standard.


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