Everyone has told me since the day I arrived of the need to get a médecin traitant – a GP.
Well after a few months of waiting to find a more permanent address and getting a social security number, it was time to find a local doctor who would take me on.
You use an app called DoctoLib and search for a doctor near you who is:
- taking on new patients
- Is Level 1 (so you know how much they are going to charge you)
- Who takes payment by bank card (as not all do)
- Who has an appointment in the near future.
It is quite a fun game.
But I found one and went to see her. We had a chat and then she gave me forms to go and get some tests done – blood, cholesterol, PSA.
And I learnt a new word in French – les selles – stool sample. Oh yes, one of those too.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 