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Originally Posted by Fat Al
Not my experience of French chemists.
Walked in with a Docs scrip. It was filled, paid for & I was walking out the door in under 2 mins.
And it was an open plan type shop, you could actually walk behind the ‘counter’.
Oh and I rang for the Docs appt at 11:45am & got an appt for 3:30pm (could have had an earlier one but we were going out for lunch).
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Ffs Al, I wasn’t pretending I’ve been in every chemist in France.
You had a prescription. In France and Belgium chemists are the only places allowed to sell medical products, which means when all you want is some cough syrup, you still have to queue with the old dears collecting their piles of prescription medicines. In big cities (Brussels) at busy times (Saturday morning) it’s a total pain in the arse.
Here it also means if you need something urgently and the chemist is closed, so like after 6pm, you have to drive to the nominated emergency chemist and pay a €5 fee.
Regular attemtps to change the rules are resisted by chemists on the grounds that the public can’t be trusted to understand how to take paracetamol
Docs appointment systems are great, not sure why you mentioned that though.