Tourist Healthcare Guides
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Is There Urgent Care in Istanbul? Your Options Explained
Urgent care in Istanbul works differently from the US or UK. Your same-day options: emergency departments, clinics, hotel doctors and online advice.
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Common Over-the-Counter Medicines and Their Turkish Names
Over the counter medicines in Turkey go by different names. Turkish spellings of common ingredients, symptom words and phrases to use with the pharmacist.
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Antibiotics in Turkey: What Tourists Should Know
Antibiotics in Turkey are prescription medicines. When tourists need them, why pharmacies should not sell them over the counter and how to get help.
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Finding a 24-Hour (Nöbetçi) Pharmacy in Istanbul
Need a 24 hour pharmacy in Istanbul? How the nöbetçi eczane rota works, how to find the nearest one at night or on Sunday, and useful Turkish phrases.
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Tourist Healthcare in Istanbul: Frequently Asked Questions
The questions visitors ask most about healthcare in Istanbul, answered in one place, with links to the longer guide covering each one in detail.
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Questions to Ask Before Paying for Private Medical Care
Before you agree to private treatment abroad, some answers matter more than others. Here are the questions and how to judge the answers you get.
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Medical Privacy for International Patients in Turkey
Who sees your medical information while you are treated in Turkey, which disclosures you are asked to approve, and what you can ask about it.
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How to Keep Your Medical Information Accessible While Traveling
Your medical details are only useful if someone can reach them. Here are the ways they go missing abroad and how travellers plan around that.
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What to Do if You Become Ill Before Your Flight Home
Falling ill in the last days of an Istanbul trip raises a question you cannot answer alone. Here is how that decision is usually approached.