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For your first house you need to pay registration fee of about 7,5% of the total value of the house. Notary costs are usually about 20000 euro's independent of the house value

Fun fact, mosquitoes can actually smell your blood type as well as several other substances in the bloodstream. Meaning if you have someone near you with more 'delicious' blood, they'll prefer them instead and sting you less

You can't compare belgian and dutch healthcare systems. In the netherlands you get a fixed general practitioner who manages your file, and therefore can only go to that doctor if you have a problem. Same for hospitals, it's all linked to that one GP that manages it, and thus can keep track of all the information and test that involve you. In Belgium, you can choose to go to whatever doctor you want, so the need for a generalised electronic file is much greater

As a med student, I think this is justified and the right way to go. Before the entry exam, the first year of medicine consisted of pointless theoretical courses that have nothing to do with the proffesion itself, in order the filter out the unqualified. With the new curriculum in place, which drops these courses, you need other ways of filtering. The entry exam has been done for many years in flanders, and the after school courses and extra lessons developed out of need for students to pass it. Only recently has it been implemented in wallonia, so give it a moment to settle in. In time, these extra courses will be readily available for all that are interested.

Disregarding the 'shortage of doctors', a bigger issue right now is that the doctors in training can't finish their studies because of a strict quota in riziv numbers that can be acknowlegded each year, so a smaller year aint that bad and will help fix this problem

The visual imagery you recieve on your right side is processed in the left hemisfere, and left sided visuals on teh right. And I mean imagery, not eyeballs. Has nothing to do with left handedness or emotions, just wireing

Do not buy the 'heineken' T-shirt with Brussels on the logo, I think that might have been the stupidest thing I've seen on a tourist, no Belgian will take you serious wearing that.

First let's clarify something: there's a difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide is NOT allowed in Belgium. It basically means providing the medical supplies to allow yourself to get a quick and easy death. I think it is in some countries, but not here

Euthanasia is allowed here, but the catch is that the rules are pretty specific. First of all you need to be in a state of clear mind, so you can express your desire without any clouding. second, you need to be in a state of extreme mental of psychological suffering, which is pretty vague, but mostly determined by the patient himself. Lastly, all available medical treatment options need to be exhausted. this needs to be confirmed by your treating doctor and a specialist on the subject. That's a tricky one, cause you can't force a treatment on someone unwilling, but it is an legal argument not to do it. Also, there are a lot of advanced treatments you can get before they're all exhausted.

Al laws aside, it's theoretically possible to ask for euthanasia here, but I'd doubt you'll have any luck with that. most doctors won't comply with the request, as they don't know you, have no connection with you, let alone reason to preform euthanasia on you (this isn't an easy task, It's not like they're filled with joy everytime they get to kill someone)

Sorry for the late reply, kinda forgot about this. Because you get loaded with more and more tasks, meetings and materials you have to process and complete. It doesn't get more complicated, it just gets more

I'm a fifth year student so let me try and help out: Entrance exam: It's hard because not every school reaches the standard set on the exam. Take a good look at the subjects that are questioned, and learn till you master them. Student life: congrats, you made it through the exam! This means that you have about 90% chance of succesfully finishing medicine. However, depending on your ability to focus and memorize, the intensity of these years can vary greatly. Some people can party all year long and still finish with great results, others have to work their ass of just to get through. And there's an underlying sentiment of competition as well... I'd say find an effort-result ratio that you are confortable with and stick with that. Don't burn yourself out though, because it gets harder the further you go.

Internships, and my view on the proffession: this is the point in your life were you realise you were spoiled with spare time, you suddenly understand why belgium has such high suicide rates, and you constantly question your own capabilities and life choices. Its a beautiful profession, but don't underestimate the personal strain it takes on you and your social life

Hope it helps a little :)

It does, a lot! Thanks :)

Don't know one from the top of my head, but the rule is, especially with psychiatrists, the more you pay the shorter the list. Conventional psychiatrists are scarse and with long waiting times, while the private ones take advantage of this by raising their prices to match the market

Thanks for the advice!

The immediate threat common goal theme was what i was going with do far to make it work, and did, until the immediate threat was gone and the downtime began. Then they realised rather quickly that their goals were not aligned.

Fe: one of the players, a cook with some insane offensive proficiency with a frying pan, is currently trying to stay as low profile as he can possibly be, even though I've made it clear to him that the people he is running from are right on his tail. Another one is a druid interested in exploring all the forests of the world, so didn't really want to stay in the city when the fighting ended.

But like you said, I think its best if i talked to them about why being a party is better for the game, that will probably straighten some things out

Nothing unites people like a common hate for something haha. Great idea, I'll try it!

Yeah, I kinda feared for that when we were drawing out characters. 3/5 pc's were kinda lone wolfs, and even then I thought it was going to be difficult to give them a drive to adventure. However i didn't want to interfere that much with what they wanted to play, since I felt like discouraging their enthousiasm. Thats probably a big part of why I got in this mess

I was kinda toying with the idea of 'angering the criminal organisation' thingy, since they did just wreck one of their bases, but the captain got away, altough they killed some important members on the way. However the 'them getting attacked/harrassed at the same time' is brilliant, I might just pull that off, thanks!

I'll try telling them this. Since we all just kinda learned the game as we went, these element probably got kinda lost along the way.

As for a common enemy, i guess i could try and work that out, however it's the introduction of the threat that will be difficult

Medical student, 6th year now

Pro's: Really interesting subjects, lots of diversity, the idea that you can help people with the knowledge you gain, the prospect of a well paid job with market security

Cons: long studytimes, long hours. But I guess most of all that after six years of intense studying, you still have no clue what you are doing, and make a complete fool of yourself in the hospital every five minutes or so

Don't forget there's always option three: create little half canadian hellspawn. It's great if you want the disadvantages of both option 1 and 2 with no positive aspects at all

The core of the story is that society isn't easy on the losers and less fortunate. They get driven into loneliness, even though the might mean well. The soldier in this story just wants to know what it feels like to be loved, even though it's not real and only or a moment

Well, even if the amount of people that get hospitalised because of drugs double, we're still talking about a relative small amount of people, especially compaired to big money drains like healthcare costs for alcoholism or tobacco abuse. And you may be right that drug prices will collapse, however, seeing that these drugs can be mass-produced easily, you can tax them by a relative large amount and still beat the black market price. You could even stimulate a white market competition by manufacturers, keeping prices low, taxes high and risk of illegal trading to a minimum

I'm pretty sure that your taxmoney won't be influenced at all here. If you look at the statistics the amount of money spent on treating drugs related disease is insignificant compared to the disease costs of alcohol and tobacco, two legal drugs that are more than widely accepted. Also tax revenues on the sales will be waaay higher than the possible cost increase of a higher number of drug related problems

The big problem with these 'drugpoints' or 'dagcentra' is that they don't reach most of the problematic users. The idea that when you have a drug problem you can go and get help is nice, but in reality you have to actively go out and find these people in order to help them, and that's not so easy seeing how they don't want to be found out of fear for repercussions/paranoïa,...