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

[Music] welcome to your meet the Germans health check-up we'll be running through some fun facts about health in Germany please take a seat and we'll get started when you walk into the waiting room at a doctor surgery you should always offer a general greeting to the assembled sick people Goodin tag everyone in Germany has to have health insurance and if he cannot pay for it you might as well use it right so the Germans go to see their doctor a lot or other doctors because here it's quite normal to go straight to the specialist which brings us to the next point why complicate things with Latin or Greek here in Germany the specialists are usually given very simple labels eye doctor tooth doctor skin doctor women doctor but sadly the house doctor is not some kind of feng shui expert it's just the normal family doctor you know the kind of health wisdom that gets passed down through the generations well here are some examples of things that will make you ill according to many Germans drinking water after eating cherries drafts very very bad and eating raw beans or raw potatoes but they're totally down with eating raw minced pork meat in a drugstore or toget the amount you'll find more toiletries than actual drugs and you won't find any painkillers in the supermarket for most over-the-counter medicine and all prescription medicine you'll need to go to an apple taker look out for this symbol a lot of pharmacies and doctor surgeries will be closed for up to two hours at lunchtime because lunch and some will shut up shop on a Wednesday afternoon - because update a lot of Germans avoid taking pills for common ailments like a headache or fever many opt for delightfully peculiar home remedies instead perhaps laying a little sack of onion over your ear or wrapping your carbs in cold towels let's play a little game of have you ever the home remedy Edition haven't emotes feebly eating or hunched mounts and balanced yeah happy yeah wall as from Juliet no it's my kind of even a second joke more advantage that's obvious wrong a math question I ask every month and clout and function as well my course I don't know although as I see yourself in notes on there yeah the savage behind King anga much just hard to shove fills in for ouch tangle in cooler give me Martin down those tennis as kind of skin temir decima becomes unjust hanky maggots good for to me at all that's how the ocean Morgan yeah cooler you know we recommend to pneumonia on high socket offering getting who's been 910 astonished list of a small service volume art is finish goggle my vodka as he thinks this is Google's nor after the putative the Germans also seem to believe that scarves have magical healing powers at the first sign of a cold or a sore throat they'll reach for the scarf in summer indoors in bed anytime anywhere just trust the scarf homeopathy most scientists might dismiss this form of alternative medicine as hocus-pocus but many Germans swear by these little sugar balls known as globally in fact homeopathy was invented right here in Germany back in the 1800s have you ever felt like the weather was affecting your health well the German Weather Service publishes detailed Bo veteran maps these actually map out where in the country you're most likely to suffer from migraines circulatory issues for sleeping problems on any given day based on the weather okay that's your health check over have you noticed anything else about health in Germany do you put onions on your ear in your country to tell us about it in the comments see you next time [Music]

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Length: 4min 24sec (264 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 20 2019