 Poster: A snowHead
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My daughters broken her leg somewhere in her knee joint and needs an operation, she's in the Hospital Centre de Bourg Saint Maurice atm and I'm of the opinion that they must see and be experienced in this kind of injury so best let them get on with it.
Anyone had any experience with the hospital?
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Adrian
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Poor girl. Sympathies. No experience of that hospital - I'd do what your insurer recommends. Keep in close touch with them. Generally when we get reports of people having treatment of this sort in French hospitals, they're pleased with their treatment. Rarely seen any complaints.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Spent a night there a few years back before being shipped off to Chambery, and it was a more pleasant place to be in BsM. I was not there for broken bones, but that did seem to be a large portion of their clientele!
My only complaint is that I could see a chairlift up the mountain in the distance, and would rather have been up there than in the hospital
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A friend had quite a bit of his knee replaced with metal there a while back - very good job apparently.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Aqua66, Mrs Boredsurfin has been in there twice, once for a broken wrist that needed pins and once for a stomach problem. On return to UK the NHS Dr's were impressed with what had been done and the notes made. However, French X Rays are treated as 'foreign material' by the NHS and have to be re-done in the UK - don't know why.
They also have an MRI Scanner that they like to use, given any excuse! Only cost €20 with GHIC.
Take lots of change for the Vending machine for your food and drink - I never did find if there was a canteen. Patient food is good - wine with lunch, naturally!
Very good staff who speak a little English and a couple of French Canadian nurses who were assigned to look after my wife and some other English speaking patients, wards are two or 4 beds.
Accounts dept. are spot on once they have photocopied the Ehic/Ghic from memory each time we paid around €70 which we claimed back on Travel Insurance they give you a form for your insurance claim.
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@Aqua66, In the last 2 years I've had a heart valve repaired, both hands de-Du Puytrened, both cataracts and an ACL repaired, in various hospitals near Annecy. All excellent.
French hospitals aren't always pretty but they're usually very good.
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@Aqua66, both @Tazz2bme and @Tubaski have ended up there in December 2021 and 2023 respectively.
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When my wife was injured skiing she first went to the medical centre in Morzine. She was in intense pain.They manhandled her on and off trolley, x-rayed her, declared she might have a cracked rib and then proceeded to 'force' her to stand up and try walking. She collapsed in agony. Reluctantly they referred her on to the hospital in Thonon. The ambulance put her in head-first which meant, being downhill to Thonon, that when she was sick she was choking on her vomit. So they stopped, took her out and turned her around so that she was feet-first. At Thonon the MRI showed she had broken/cracked 2 vertebrae. She was lucky the shenanigans in Morzine and the ambulance journey didn't cause her permanent spinal damage. The staff that treated her there were clearly generalists. When she got back to the UK after an airvac the specialist back consultant was horrified by the contraption they had stuffed her into and the quality of the notes. So, in our experience, only a sample, French hospital care is crap. A conclusion my son's french mother in law also came to after a shattered knee operation.
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@Aqua66, Sorry to hear about your daughter's injury. I would definitely go ahead with the op in France. The hospitals in that area are well equipped to deal with broken bones. One of my children broke a bone and was operated on in Albertville within twenty four hours and we couldn't fault the hospital there. If you stay on in resort you will find that you can book medical services such as seeing a physio and claim it back on insurance. You will end up spending a lot up front on medication and crutches but you can claim it all back on your return home if you have good insurance cover. One thing to check is that if your daughter is on any medication currently that it won't clash with anything prescribed in France...they tend to be generous in prescribing high strength pain killers!
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My nephew had a good experience I think. Aged 13 on the last day of a ski trip in Tignes in April 2019, he fell skiing on some mushy snow and punched himself with his poles in the collarbones on both sides. Broke both, Turned out to be quite serious. Ambo to BSM, then once they’d seen him, a helicopter to Grenoble as his broken bones were pressing on his trachea. To cut a long story short, he had surgery there after a couple of days and came back to the U.K. after about 10 days. Full recovery. The family were accommodated in a room at Grenoble (the only time to feel thankful for McDonalds who have a scheme that provides parental accommodation at children’s hospitals). bro in law and my other nephew came back to the U.K. after a few days and my sister stayed on to drive Greg home.
I didn’t have to go to hospital after my recent fractured humerus incident in Val Thorens, but there was no issue with the NHS using my x-rays from VT Medical centre when I got back. They were accessed by a QR code. On my return to the U.K., I pitched up at A&E, saw a fracture nurse, who bustled off with the QR code to radiology and on return said that they were fascinated by this method of accessing the data.
As an aside, now I’m back in France (dog walking while Mr P skis), the access to physio here in resort is superb. I’m seeing someone in St M 3x a week. I have to pay, but for €35 a session, it’s worth every penny.
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