I don’t think I did. You are holding doctors in France to a higher standard than you do doctors in the UK.
From experience, it’s pretty hit and miss there too.
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If a UK doctor happened to speak good French and had a French patient who spoke little English I’d expect that doctor to speak French if possible. Though the NHS will provide a translator or us a translation service.
That’s no different to what I would expect a French doctor to do.
However, I would expect it much more likely that the French doctor had a good standard of English simply because English is the lingua Franca of the international scientific and medical community.
I think you are probably right - at least so far as the younger doctors are concerned, however, a doctor is also beholden to impart information correctly. An acquaintance some years back told me she HAD to learn French about her cancer because her oncologist told her he would not speak to her in English in case he made a mistake and misinformed her.
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Are we talking UK English or US English??
I was startled to discover that many of my French pals have US English as standard on their computers/whatever.
Definitely not the same English !
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Dear Jane, we have just moved to Cluny after 18 years in the Limousine. Would you be happy to share the name of your doctors surgery please?
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Many years ago, a French girl described my accent as ‘mignon’. My French is quite good but I’m afraid , in my view my accent is awful.
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Mine was described as “charmant”, by a lovely woman at the VW garage. I was inclined to take it as a compliment, but now I suspect it’s similar to “bold”, as in “That’s a bold decision.”
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There is always franglais as a means of communication. Getting the explanation right is important. Many years ago I visited a doctor with ‘un mal au cou’. He prescribed some suppositories. I thought he might have misunderstood and said ‘non, mal au cou, pas un mal au cul’. He replied yes, I know. In those days pain killers were always given that way.
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Cue my grandad’s favourite joke.
Interesting that two English language expressions for a nuisance are ‘a pain in the neck’ and ‘a pain in the arse’. I wonder if these both derive from a mistranslated French original?
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That had occurred to me too!
It is Maison de Sante,
Rue de la Liberte,
CLUNY.
I would go in person as I know they are very busy.
Whereabouts are you in Cluny?
Most disappointingly, there is no Rue Georges, Cluny. 
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Thank you - will do. Just moved to the Senior Residence Z Arts. Going v well up to now.
All 3 of the doctors we have had here have spoken English. To my wife anyway, but not to me. My problem is I am far too fluent in spoken French whereas my comprehension lags far behind but they rattle on assuming I understand when, in fact, I have lost the plot. Something @toryroo can attest to as she was necessary to our specialist meetings in Perigueux. 
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