Private paediatrician in Turku

[kontra]

hello!

we'll have a need for a private pediatric, just for an infant monthly check including weighting and some vaccination issues... can anybody advise something?
also, if someone knows how it looks a calendar of vaccination for newborn and in first year of childs life...

tnx in advance

[kontra]

If you still require a private ped in Tukru then I can highly recommend Tuomas Jartti at Mehilainen. 02 414 0414 is the reception number.

we'll be there only for few months so we'll see private
do you know maybe... does dr. jartti speak english?
tnx

[EP]

It would be quite impossible to be a doctor without speaking English. Study books and research is not (even nearly) always in Finnish.

[EP]

It usually depends on people´s age. Before 1970 schools often offered German as 1st foreign language. For example most of my friends have had 8 years of German at school, and only 3 years of English (or French).

[kontra]

tnx for your informations
it's same to me if he speaks english, german or italian but i don't speak finnish... i've learned only few words, most of them about food

[Rosamunda]

It usually depends on people´s age. Before 1970 schools often offered German as 1st foreign language. For example most of my friends have had 8 years of German at school, and only 3 years of English (or French).

My own doctor in Espoo speaks really good English and is always willing to use it but when she is on holiday or absent for any reason she is replaced by locums who are invariably Russian, Estonian or, last summer, Latvian. And they do not speak English. There are also doctors (my only experience of the private sector, Diacor in Iso Omena) who don't want to speak English (for whatever reason) and seem to begrudge the mere presence of foreigners (but that was a one-off and I won't be going there again).

But I would agree that the vast majority do speak English and are more than willing to do so.

[Gigi]

I remember my first experience needing a dr in Liperi. Having only been in Finland 3 weeks at that point, I had to ask my husband to come into the examining room with me and the dr because the dr, once past "hello", spoke no English at all.

Good example of a community where the terveyskeskus sucks, the doctors indeed don't speak English and where they ask you very strange questions when you call for an appointment.

But in the neighboring community the doctors are great although they are 2/3 Russian and I have had only once a minor problem with understanding the doctor, private or public.

[onkko]

Good example of a community where the terveyskeskus sucks, the doctors indeed don't speak English and where they ask you very strange questions when you call for an appointment.

But in the neighboring community the doctors are great although they are 2/3 Russian and I have had only once a minor problem with understanding the doctor, private or public.

And how you think it feels to go russian doctor who cant understand my dialect? Well im only 90%+ majority and this is only my country... whatever pleases you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_la ... e_speakers Well our doctors should speak mandarin china, hindi and spanish too...

[onkko]

And about those strange guestions. Nurse wanted to know if i had have orgasm, well i as 15 old shy boy and i lied and then she wanted to see my balls! Oh horror! She commented that i will have soon if i hadnt already... Think about when you have to take pants off front of nurse
I saw in her face that she knew i lied but still she had to check if im OK. There is good reason behind of those strange questions. Those are for your good. And my check was one of last included in "lastensuojelu" (i think) so it was mandatory, to be sure kids are OK.
Stamped in book "healthy kid with quite strong growing", i were small till 10 to 15 when i sprinted growing line, now im about 180+cm.