Sally Bowles

Review of Charité, Laboratory for Experi...

in 2005 I came to Charite' at the beginning of a v...

in 2005 I came to Charite' at the beginning of a very serious illness, in the immunology department, I was diagnosed with Epstein Barr, then I was told that my treatment of choice was psychotherapy (?! ahem, say again? isn't the treatment of choice against viruses something like an antiviral?) then the doctor proceeded to inform me that if I dared to ask for disability and take advantage of the country (I was just visiting!) he would personally persecute me, his words. I was young then, so I didn't really complain or anything, and left the country.
Last week in 2016 after a bad accident that left me in great pain, I made the mistake of going to first help at Charite'. First the doctor said "you look too nice to be really in pain" (!), then accidentally he learned about my previous experience with multiple viruses, which "do not exist" (!) and again I was referred to a psychiatrist. On passing I mentioned that I was successfully doing acupuncture for the pain and he said "here we don't believe in negative vibrations" (?!) I don't need to comment. He also asked in a threatening way if I wanted to move to Germany because of their healthcare, implying that I wanted to take advantage of the system. And by the way, he prescribed me the more pernicious drugs ever for pain, even if according to him I was just a crazy person who needed a psychiatrist. Does not compute. If I am not mistaken that guy's name, who clearly was not any kind of doctor, especially not the neurologist he said he was, is Thomas Liman.
In any case, if you suffer from EPV or Lyme or possibly a lot of other horrifying illnesses that are not as visible as a broken leg, be warned that at Charite' "they don't believe in them", and the hospital's policy seems to consist in sending bouncers to scare foreigners out of moving to Germany. This was my experience, and my advice is to do your best to pick a different hospital.