For the lab tests you will pay separately. Be sure to ask always for a receipt when paying the bill. Some private practices announce in newspapers that physicians employed there speak foreign languages. Such information, for example can be found on the some private practices situated in the Main Market in Cracow. Generally speaking the level of physicians' professional skilfulness in different parts of Poland is uneven, but in Cracow, a city of long university tradition and wide range of international contacts, it is really good.
Every physician is obliged to help in an emergency situation.
It is not important where you are from, whether you have or you do not have any documents or money with you, they should help you. Refusal of professional help in such situation may result in deprivation of professional entitlement. If you are going to stay in Poland for a longer period of time, you should vaccinate yourself or take a recalling dose of vaccine against viral hepatitis B. Sanitary conditions in some hospitals, outpatient clinics and dentists' offices are still far from perfect. Also, as a result of Poland's location in the place of crossing of many trade routs, the problem of syphilis infection appeared in recent years again. AIDS is also present.