Two readers had mentioned that there was a dentist at Parisot and as I need an appointment we thought Parisot, not too far, easy parking that will do us. We went yesterday morning to discover there is not a reception in the Doctors/ dentists building. We would have been all at sea if we had not seen friends waiting to see a Doctor.
Who do we see about making an appointment we asked.
The answer, you just sit in the waiting room hoping that the dentist is working and catch him when he comes out. Now as we did not know if he was male, female, working, distinguish him or her from a Dr. all very confusing. We thought OK is there a card with telephone number... no there was not.
We decided sitting in a full waiting room with coughs and colds was not the best idea and as we were driving off noticed a big board with telephone numbers on including the dentist.
We phoned when we got home to discover that phone number did not work as the person who may have been a dentist there formerly was there no longer. The voice suggested we went and sat in the waiting room to see the dentist!
We next tried phoning a dentist in Villefranche who came highly reccomended, to be told they were taking no more patients.
Then we tried Ali's suggestion of a dentist at Caussade and finally we got an appointment for April...
Dentists will be added to the list of optician and dermatologist as not been easy to get appointments with.
Since the lack of Doctors in St. Antonin patients have been coming to Varen and Caylus and I am sure we will have a wait now when making an appointment at the Varen health centre.
It is all down to desertification, where recruiting young medical people to the villages is now very difficult. The young do not want to live quietly in villages and if they have partners they would find it difficult to continue working.
It is a problem we did not meet 13 years ago when we arrived, although we did see the young French leaving and French villagers who were parents told us their children were in Toulouse, Paris or London
Malc says giving a young person a job as receptionist at the Parisot Health centre might help
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