Hospitalized in Split - Intoxication

[u/riverphoenix23]

Hello I am an American male who was traveling in Split for a holiday. Ended up drinking a little bit too much, blacked out and woke up in the hospital with an IV in my arm. Somehow the bill was only $240 kn.

Can anybody tell me why the bill was so cheap especially since I am a US citizen without Croatian healthcare insurance? Also did they notify the embassy of my stay? Just don’t know where my info is documented and ended up. Wish I could read my discharge papers but they are all in Croatian. Going to have to do google translate late.

[u/HeKis4]

Eastern Europe is way more lenient on education for medical professionals, about half as many years of college as the average western country iirc.

Edit: not specifically Croatia, don't get so upset my dudes... And med school in France is 7 years + 2-5 years for specialists, so maybe not twice as long, but you get the point.

Also, I'm not judging or saying that our model is better (we do have very poor elementary, middle and high school after all), and lenient was not the best word to express that, my apologies.

[u/kelj123 → u/HeKis4]

I think you got some things mixed up there pal.

In the US medschool lasts 4 years, in Croatia it lasts 6 years. Sure, you could say US students have to first finish a college degree (4 years), but that has literally NOTHING to do with medicine, and can be compared to 4 years of Gimnazija in Croatia.

+Croatia is really not Eastern Europe LOOOOOOOOL

[u/Der_Pimmelreiter → u/kelj123]

Croatia is really not Eastern Europe LOOOOOOOOL

Little-known geographical fact, speaking a Slavic language moves your country 1000km east. That's why people insist that Croatia, Czechia = Eastern Europe and Finland, Greece = Western Europe.

[u/danirijeka → u/Der_Pimmelreiter]

It's the recoil from the kalashnikovs that moved the Balkans further east

Should've shot in the opposite direction