at least here they do it professionally they download it from the internet

This is not my experience of the NHS.  It seems you have been unlucky...

With regard to antibiotics, people take so many that we are becoming immune to them.  Mothers rush their children to their doctor every time they have a slight cough and demand antibiotics instead of letting nature take it´s course.  Then... in the even of something serious and life threatening like meningitis, antibiotics do not work so fast.  Adults with serious conditions like pneumonia should respond quickly to antibiotics, but increasingly it can take weeks for them to work, and many "tries" of different antibiotics, because that patient has taken so many courses of them in the past.  For this reason, GPs are more reluctant to prescribe them now.

That´s all true what F said about us, continental patients not being used to Paracetamol being the wonder cure for all diseases. When my son was 3 weeks old he developed a nasty rash, our GP said it´ll heal itself but me being an overprotective mum took him to see a paediatrician in a Polish Clinic in Dublin. She immediately recognised cow´s milk allergy and prescribed him a special needs formula. Within 3 weeks the rash was gone.

I still prefer the Irish system of medical care. In Poland quite a contribution to the National Health Fund but instead of getting free medical service you go to private doctors rather than use the public service. I don´t know any woman who´d rely on public obstetricians. It is terrible also that if you don´t brible midwives you´re likely to be ignored by them or treated as a piece of meat. It´s totally different here, all the midwives I met were wonderful and helpful. Also Ireland has a great drugs payment scheme - a family can pay only €100 a month, the rest is covered by DPS. In Poland pensioners often spend 70-80% of their income on drugs.

I haven´t heard about bribery in Eire but in Poland it´s terrible. I remember a student´s father who told me that when his wife got ill, the docs told him he either pays them his 6 moth earnings or they won´t do a thing. Needles to say the woman dies and left him alone with 6 children. That´s only one of many problems of Polish healthcare.

I wonder what it looks like in Turey. Do you pay for healthcare directly or do you buy private health insurance?

 the same story you would hear from poles. what happent now is that poles have withdrawn polish doctors to uk. i have friends who only visit polish doctors. i listened to their stories and they are almost identical to mine. and we laugh at stories together. the thing is my daughter now has a chest infection after being on paracetamol. she finally was prescribed antibiotics, but of course they forgot about probiotics, so now her stomach is out of work, she vomits and cant eat. i then went to a pharmacist. asked her. she doesnt know, no, she is puzzled and goes off to her boss, he comes, he is puzzled, and calls his another assistant to find probiotics.

we found something at the price of £22  nope, at the end there was something at £3

my son probably is allergic to something, he just got some weird looking bubbles under his left eye, he was prescribed antihystamine, its getting better. however, the GP should have advised me to take some allergy tests and have handed me a paper to the lab.

anyway, we are good at complaining, im sure.

 Was it your foot soup?