Are there English-speaking doctors in Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?
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Yes, there are some English-speaking doctors in Los Cabos, and there are directories of them.
Most services here, even if the people providing the services are not fluent in English, are very willing to help ,even to the point that they have to use hand signals and basic pointing. So you could pretty much get by even if there is nobody there to translate for you.
We have several hospitals in the Los Cabos area between Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, and La...
Most services here, even if the people providing the services are not fluent in English, are very willing to help ,even to the point that they have to use hand signals and basic pointing. So you could pretty much get by even if there is nobody there to translate for you.
We have several hospitals in the Los Cabos area between Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, and La...
Yes, there are some English-speaking doctors in Los Cabos, and there are directories of them.
Most services here, even if the people providing the services are not fluent in English, are very willing to help ,even to the point that they have to use hand signals and basic pointing. So you could pretty much get by even if there is nobody there to translate for you.
We have several hospitals in the Los Cabos area between Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, and La Paz that are all very good hospitals. We have emergency service, walk-in service, we also have EMTs through the fire department who are very well-trained. Our fire department here in Cabo San Lucas has sister fire departments in the US that helped train them for US-style firefighting and emergency services. For example, two years ago, they had a big convention and all these sister fire departments from the US came down to have a big think tank.
Most services here, even if the people providing the services are not fluent in English, are very willing to help ,even to the point that they have to use hand signals and basic pointing. So you could pretty much get by even if there is nobody there to translate for you.
We have several hospitals in the Los Cabos area between Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, and La Paz that are all very good hospitals. We have emergency service, walk-in service, we also have EMTs through the fire department who are very well-trained. Our fire department here in Cabo San Lucas has sister fire departments in the US that helped train them for US-style firefighting and emergency services. For example, two years ago, they had a big convention and all these sister fire departments from the US came down to have a big think tank.
Here, the emergency services volunteers start to volunteer as teenagers. So if somebody had a heat stroke on the beach, the responder would be the fire department. They are very well trained. They recently gave a demonstration of how they are trained to move people safely and had all the emergency staff there. They had about 50 volunteers for responders it was pretty impressive.
My husband doesn’t speak any Spanish but he went to the dentist by himself and didn’t have a problem. I believe the dentist was a bit more fluent in English but my husband didn’t have any problem at all. My husband knows some “survival level Spanish”, so he could say in Spanish, “Where’s the bathroom?” and “Mas cervasa, por favor.” We have those little tricks to make it easier for him to learn Spanish but he also carries a Spanish to English dictionary. He has gone to all kinds of places like the local hardware store. He would go in there because the local prices are always cheaper versus places like Home Depot since the local hardware store is geared towards the local income. My husband would go in there with his little dictionary. If nothing else, he will look up the word, point to it and the people at the hardware store will say, “Ohh.. Si!”
In general, if you could try to learn Spanish and use it as much as possible, the Mexican people greatly appreciate it. The same way that if you were in the US and somebody didn’t speak English as a first language but they try, you would at least appreciate that fact that they made the effort to do it. However, the language barrier is not that big when you are in Los Cabos because it is very English-friendly. If you are going outside San Jose del Cabo, it is still a tourist area so they aspire to speak English, too. But when you get to areas like La Paz, the locals figure you’re in Mexico so you need to speak Spanish. However, there are international hand signs that you can use and pointing to things work, too. It is not scary at all.
(Pictured: Amerimed Hospital, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.)
Posted April 30, 2016