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Hi @GCOMM Thanks for your question!

We’ve checked in with Glenda Cole, our expert in Portugal to get an answer to your question. This was her response,

In the Algarve, pretty much all private docs speak English. In Lisbon and Porto, it requires a bit of research on their websites to find a doctor that speaks English.

If you are moving to Portugal, you want to research a general practitioner who speaks English. They will then refer you to any specialists you need, keeping in mind that you need an English speaker.

My doctor is South African. She speaks better English than I do.

Thanks for the information about researching a general practitioner.

Thank you for the responses. The translated notes are useful to have available.

Which hospitals and Dental Offices around Portugal have doctors and dentists with some English speaking capability, especially in the Lisbon and Porto region? I was surprised that a hospital that I visited to ask questions had to really scramble around to find any person that spoke some English, although my Portugese speaking skills were starting to improve. I also visited a dental office in Lisbon that had difficuly with English. I subsequently wrote to the dental office in e-mail during early 2024 as they suggested and I did not receive a response.

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