I found it much easier to get prescriptions filled when I was living in Spain for two years.

The doc I saw was on the campus I worked on, so I can't speak to the general experience of medical appointments. (He practically lived next door, and was readily available.) From what he said as a friend and colleague, though, I'm a believer in nationalised medicine.

When my son got injured in Scotland we received exceptional treatment and were not expected to pay anything. Again, thanks to nationalised medicine. It's not psych care, I realise, but I doubt they would have stellar medical schools which ignore psychiatric care.

Where are you thinking to go? Would this be to learn a new language? I could see that causing difficulties in psychiatric care. The communication complicating things. If you're leaning toward a couple of years in the UK, where you speak the same language for the most part, things would be easier if you needed the support of psychiatrist or psychologist or hospitalisation.


Foreign medicine (I'm speaking of the EU and UK), while being different to that of the US, still succeeds as health care.