A typical example of Germans-on-holiday in Argentina

As some of you might already know the recipe for the Argentinean Spirit, I'd like to describe a typical example of one of the key ingredients: Germans on a life-long vacation.

For an annoying and sudden health issue it was necessary to go to the hospital ER. Well, once at the Hospital Aleman:Deutsches Krankenhaus, downtown Buenos Aires (Pueyrredon y Berruti) you would expect a typical German efficiency. All the signs are written in Spanish and German as to say "forget the "warmth" of a Southern European/American health institution, we are Germans".....in Argentina.

We tried to register at the reception, but it had been deserted for say at least 15 minutes. So we started lining up at the cashier to eventually learn that we had to go through the reception first. We stood in line and after more than five minutes a door opened and out of at least 5 ER receptionists one finally attended us.

His attention was so useful that he told us to step in line at the cashier(!!!!!) and once there the same cashier officer who told us to wait for the ER receptionist finally attended us asking how we were doing: how in the World were we doing feeling like a tennis ball at a German Hospital ER reception!!!!!

Finally we made it to the department of interest and for our surprise our number had already being called (German hyperefficiency). We walked to the assigned lab just to find out that no one was there and to learn from a doctor passing by that for sure no one had called us.  With our laughter turning to unpleaseant annoyingment, we want back to the waiting room. We sat down and our number was called again from the same lab!!!!

Was the doctor BUSY on other tasks or did he suddenly appear for a spooky show???

His diagnosis was done in less than 10 seconds and directly prescribed a shot...which he was not going to give. The shot was sitting in a closet within other tools and things instead of being clearly visible and classified in a specific cabinet.

To get the shot we were supposed to go back to the ER receptionist which would have directed us to the cashier for us to wait for a nurse to call us and finally get the rear end pinched.....

We walked away feeling better just by the laughter this place is generating.

Would Mrs Merkel be proud of such "efficient" image that her country is bringing around?

Thank God that our case was not "vital".