Hi all! Just saw this https://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/story/bannis-a-l-etranger-des-medecins-se-recyclent-au-luxembourg-184479811715 and I was wandering if anyone of you had already a bad experience with some doctors? Do you may have any list or suggestions of practicionners to avoid? As an expat living in Luxembourg I prefer to be aware and know which ones are problematic.

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  2. I have never seen a list but would love to know of one. Occasionally you read articles (like Benoit Ochs) https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/2051731.html but they aren’t reported on that frequently

    Benoit Ochs is not from across the border but I am using as an example of a doctor who was suspended practicing. I have heard of another – gynecologist. I think that was fraudulent billing.

  3. >Do you may have any list

    * Access is requested here: [https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/contact/index_en.htm#art_lu](https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/contact/index_en.htm#art_lu)
    * After which you’d log in here: [https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/imi-net/imi/protected/home.imi](https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/imi-net/imi/protected/home.imi)

    But, as you can guess, access is only granted to Health Ministry employees and their relevant affiliates

    I’m not sure if a journalist or citizen would be able to request the list through a Freedom of Information request

    edit: there appears to be a module that would allow a citizen to request extracts from member states regarding the status of a medical practicitioner there: [https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/_docs/training/guidelines_patients_rights.pdf](https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/_docs/training/guidelines_patients_rights.pdf) however… it is entirely unclear how a citizen would gain access to this module alone

    Entrepreneurial voice in the head: *sounds like one of these archaic databases that could probably be modernized away from excel/pdf sheets, on to a modern web app and offered for $5 per lookup*…

  4. I have pretty much only had bad experiences with doctors in Luxembourg (outside of hospitals).

    I found one that was pretty good but beside this I went to around 10 in the 4 years I lived here and they were all either totally incompetent or just here for the money so making 0 effort (and thus leading to incompetence).

  5. My mom had issues with some very incompetent doctors here. The last one gave her ibuprofène because her left arm was hurting everyday. She went back there not that long ago and was received by another doctor (or even professor) who was shocked at the prescription that was given to my mom.

    These people are playing with other people life and should be hit in the head with a baseball bat for doing so

  6. Yes, Dr. Pichot (neurologist) at the hospital in Niedercorn. He’s incompetent and an arsehole.

    I had a brain tumor 5 years ago. I went to him for a diagnosis, since I didn’t know about the tumor back then. I had very clear symptoms (constant headaches, depression-like symptoms, lethargy, eyes were not working properly, weight loss+weakened body), and he wasn’t taking me seriously, like I was only pretending. He even noted how weak I looked (well, duh, I’ve spent the past months in my bed most of the time **because** I was dying from a tumor).

    The **only** good thing he did is that he set up a CT scan (for 3 weeks later!! I literally could’ve died in the mean time) where it was finally revealed that I had a very large tumor in my head. I was immediately rushed to the CHL where it got removed the same day in an emergency surgery.

  8. Has this always been the case? I swear I had some of the most unprofessional and useless dentists, to the point that they did literally more harm than good.

  9. So far, almost allll my experience with doctors here were excellent – always kind, but on point with their work. The only bad experience I had was only personal, with the doctor being somewhat rude, while doing a good job though.

  10. Was in the Kirchberg hospital because of eye nerve inflammation. Had to do a lot of tests as it’s a symptom and not a disease. One of the tests to be done was lumbar puncture, my doctor couldn’t manage it 4 times in the span of 10 minutes. The 5th one was done by anaesthesiologist under X-ray. All without anaesthesia. Awful pain. Had to stay one week more because started to have fever, migraines and nausea. The tests didn’t found anything. After this experience had couple of instances of aural migraine, awful thing, and was diagnosed with ptsd.

  11. Dr. Carlo Müller
    The first and last time I was there he didn’t took me really seriously with my chest pain, diagnosed me completely wrong and „guessed“ my diagnosis without doing further test to make sure he‘s right

    Went to another Doc for a second opionion and she completely debunked everything he told me with proof and she did really listen unlike him

    thanks for the enhanced death anxiety for 2 weeks Dr Müller tho👍🏼 just go in pension

  12. The standard answer is “everything is normal”.

    Wife had normal delivery, post delivery doctor made stiches, still she was having heavy internal bleeding, within 2 hrs she had no pulse, rushed to emergency, survived somehow and was back as warrior. 1 day old baby and untrained father spent night crying. Response was “everything is normal”

    Post COVID vaccination (2nd dose) I started having blackouts – once went to emergency, scans made, though reports never received. When went back response was everything is normal.

    Wife had severe cervical issues, we weren’t aware it was cervical, went for numerous rounds of visit to doctors and emergency. Once during vacation trip to Asia it was made clear it was due to cervical – good we had answer. Came back shared the news with old doctor, she was glad at least there were answers, as earlier it was all normal!

    Bloody hell, who is training them, why there is no action in place. This leads not only to unsatisfied patient, but could lead to loss of lives. Plus creates load on the few good docs out there…plz don’t get me started on appointment system…as everything is normal

  13. For me a red alert is when I see that the Doctors do not post their CVs in Doctena. For me, that is a must. Then, I had already my share of bad experiences with the GPs here. When you consult several, there are completely different approaches.

  16. It took me 8 months here to get ordonance for spinal CT after I fell in the bus.
    Just to show I have herniated disc.
    We are still trying to discover why pelvical pain.

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