10 fun facts about health care in Germany: From home remedies to house doctors | Meet the Germans — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:03welcome to your meet the Germans health
3. 0:06check-up we'll be running through some
4. 0:07fun facts about health in Germany please
5. 0:09take a seat and we'll get started when
6. 0:14you walk into the waiting room at a
7. 0:16doctor surgery you should always offer a
8. 0:17general greeting to the assembled sick
9. 0:19people
10. 0:19Goodin tag everyone in Germany has to
11. 0:26have health insurance and if he cannot
12. 0:28pay for it you might as well use it
13. 0:29right so the Germans go to see their
14. 0:31doctor a lot or other doctors because
15. 0:33here it's quite normal to go straight to
16. 0:35the specialist which brings us to the
17. 0:36next point why complicate things with
18. 0:41Latin or Greek here in Germany the
19. 0:43specialists are usually given very
20. 0:45simple labels eye doctor tooth doctor
21. 0:49skin doctor
22. 0:50women doctor but sadly the house doctor
23. 0:54is not some kind of feng shui expert
24. 0:56it's just the normal family doctor you
25. 1:01know the kind of health wisdom that gets
26. 1:02passed down through the generations
27. 1:04well here are some examples of things
28. 1:06that will make you ill according to many
29. 1:07Germans drinking water after eating
30. 1:09cherries drafts very very bad and eating
31. 1:13raw beans or raw potatoes but they're
32. 1:16totally down with eating raw minced pork
33. 1:18meat in a drugstore or toget the amount
34. 1:26you'll find more toiletries than actual
35. 1:28drugs and you won't find any painkillers
36. 1:30in the supermarket for most
37. 1:31over-the-counter medicine and all
38. 1:33prescription medicine you'll need to go
39. 1:35to an apple taker look out for this
40. 1:36symbol a lot of pharmacies and doctor
41. 1:42surgeries will be closed for up to two
42. 1:43hours at lunchtime because lunch and
43. 1:47some will shut up shop on a Wednesday
44. 1:49afternoon - because update
45. 1:53a lot of Germans avoid taking pills for
46. 1:56common ailments like a headache or fever
47. 1:58many opt for delightfully peculiar home
48. 2:01remedies instead perhaps laying a little
49. 2:04sack of onion over your ear or wrapping
50. 2:07your carbs in cold towels let's play a
51. 2:09little game of have you ever the home
52. 2:11remedy Edition haven't emotes feebly
53. 2:13eating or hunched mounts and balanced
54. 2:15yeah happy
55. 2:16yeah wall as from Juliet no it's my kind
56. 2:19of even a second joke more advantage
57. 2:21that's obvious wrong a math question I
58. 2:23ask every month and clout and function
59. 2:25as well my course I don't know although
60. 2:29as I see yourself in notes on there
61. 2:31yeah the savage behind King anga much
62. 2:33just hard to shove fills in for ouch
63. 2:36tangle in cooler give me Martin down
64. 2:38those tennis as kind of skin temir
65. 2:39decima becomes unjust hanky maggots good
66. 2:42for to me at all that's how the ocean
67. 2:44Morgan yeah cooler you know we recommend
68. 2:48to pneumonia on high socket offering
69. 2:50getting who's been 910 astonished list
70. 2:53of a small service volume art is finish
71. 2:57goggle my vodka as he thinks this is
72. 3:00Google's nor after the putative
73. 3:04the Germans also seem to believe that
74. 3:06scarves have magical healing powers at
75. 3:11the first sign of a cold or a sore
76. 3:12throat they'll reach for the scarf in
77. 3:15summer
78. 3:15indoors in bed anytime anywhere just
79. 3:19trust the scarf homeopathy
80. 3:24most scientists might dismiss this form
81. 3:26of alternative medicine as hocus-pocus
82. 3:27but many Germans swear by these little
83. 3:30sugar balls known as globally in fact
84. 3:34homeopathy was invented right here in
85. 3:36Germany back in the 1800s
86. 3:41have you ever felt like the weather was
87. 3:44affecting your health well the German
88. 3:46Weather Service publishes detailed Bo
89. 3:48veteran maps these actually map out
90. 3:50where in the country you're most likely
91. 3:52to suffer from migraines circulatory
92. 3:54issues for sleeping problems on any
93. 3:56given day based on the weather
94. 4:00okay that's your health check over have
95. 4:02you noticed anything else about health
96. 4:04in Germany do you put onions on your ear
97. 4:06in
98. 4:06your country to tell us about it in the
99. 4:08comments see you next time
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