Leighb
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Thanks for the heads up, just checked and ours run out the week after we return from holiday next month, so I have just renewed them. If I left it until we might need them next I would undoubtedly forget. 
Check your EHIC card expiry date
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GHA
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Another ta. Not due til June but would have been missed. Reminder now saved in evernote.
sailorman
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ours expire in May so done it early. Oostende voor Anker is end of May then the summer get away straight afterThanks for the heads up, just checked and ours run out the week after we return from holiday next month, so I have just renewed them. If I left it until we might need them next I would undoubtedly forget.
sailorman
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Awesome service
the new ones have just arrived
the new ones have just arrived
Leighb
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Indeed, so have ours!!
mjcoon
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Nikia
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Another reminder for you all, you need separate travel insurance for the channel Islands, the EHIC doesn't cover you.
Don't get a £2,000 medical bill like we did! ??
sailorman
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Guernsey only i believe. not sure about Aldeney, Jersey is covered
macd
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It may be worth checking the precise details on that. A UK resident visiting the Isle of Man gets free emergency care, but this does not include long-term care or repatriation. Air ambulances are expensive.
Anyone visiting IoM who is not UK resident will face the full cost of all treatment. This includes Irish and CI residents. EHIC does not apply.
https://www.gov.im/media/176788/make_sure_youre_covered_ukoverseas.pdf
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Nikia
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Alderley definitely not covered, that's where we were. Part of Bailiwick of Guernsey. Emergency treatment not covered either.
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Cantata
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Has this changed over the years? Quite a while ago and before EHIC days I went to the cottage hospital on Alderney with a suspect broken toe (that's what comes of crewing barefoot on a yacht...), was xray'd and strapped up, all free.
Nikia
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I had an unconscious crew on board and the doctor would only come after I confirmed I would pay his £80 call out fee.
That was just the start.
macd
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The arrangement is reciprocal and symmetrical.
(And if you ever visit, please don't refer to it as "the mainland". Some locals get very upset. By the same token, the pedantic answer to your question is "yes".)
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sailorman
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Hippocratic oath my Rs
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It even worse in the States..
Me.."hello doctor I have a sick crew member"
Doc... "Will that be cash or credit card?"
Stork_III
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And you did your carpentering for free, I suppose? Man has to make a living, my life.
sailorman
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A lady swmbo knows was on her honeymoon in Vietnam, both mid / late 20s , after a long coach trip she went to the hotel he went to get a local sim card, he was taken ill & hailed a taxi who took him to hospital, he was refused treatment as he hadnt got ins docs with him. the taxi driver took him back to the hotel & the drive rushed up to get the wife & docs. when they got back down to the taxi he was an ex husband. DVT was diagnosed after a butchered post mortem.
She came home with her husband in the hold.
sailorman
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The Hippocratic Oath wasnt included in my IndenturesAnd you did your carpentering for free, I suppose? Man has to make a living, my life.
Leighb
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Contrary to popular opinion the Hippocratic Oath has not been part of the medical graduation for many years AFAIK. It is however a good basis for reasonable behaviour.
As it starts "I swear by Apollo and all the Gods" it would not go down too well in many cultures anyway.
As it starts "I swear by Apollo and all the Gods" it would not go down too well in many cultures anyway.