• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Most Hungarians See Tipping Doctors After Treatment As A Crime

Most Hungarians See Tipping Doctors After Treatment As A Crime

• 27 Feb 2019 7:05 AM
• Hungary Matters

A majority of Hungarians disapprove of tipping doctors after treatment and want the practice to be classed as a crime, according to Hungarian Academy of Sciences researchers.

Few, however, are familiar with recent legislation that criminalises the acceptance of a gratuity payment in advance, according to the survey conducted by the academy’s Centre for Social Sciences.

Fully 56% of respondents said paying gratuities after treatment should be punished, the survey of 1,200 people carried out last October found.

Only 34% knew that accepting a gratuity in advance is a crime, the academy said in a statement on Tuesday.

Over 70% knew that doctors who accept a tip after treatment do not commit a crime.

But only 49% were aware that a doctor asking for a fee from a patient entitled to state health-care services free of charge is a crime under Hungarian law.

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Tipping Doctors Treatment Crime

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Criminal Proceedings Against Orbán by Opposition Party DK 'Nonsense in Legal Sense'?

• 21 Dec 2024 5:21 AM

The criminal proceedings the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) plans to initiate against the prime minister is "obviously nonsense in a legal sense", the head of the Prime Minister's Office told MTI.



Far-Right Opposition Protests Against Orbán Inviting Netanyahu, "His Friend", to Visit Hungary

• 28 Nov 2024 6:14 AM

Opposition Mi Hazank protests against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to invite Benjamin Netanyahu, "his friend", to visit Hungary after the International Criminal Court's issuance of an arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister on war crime charges, the party said on Friday.



Update: American Woman Murdered in Budapest

• 28 Nov 2024 5:49 AM

"It was a violent murder": Parents speak out as body of American girl who died in Budapest is repatriated.



New Fund Proposed for Preventing Violence Against Women in Hungary

• 26 Nov 2024 6:08 AM

The opposition Socialists have proposed the government should set up a fund for the prevention of violence against women and to include the fight against domestic violence as a subject in the national curriculum, the party's parliamentary deputy group leader said on Monday, marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.