After four days of being sick, my cough had not let up, so in a paranoid state that I have some crazy Sri Lankan disease I agreed to see the doctor.
So I am picturing going to a doctors office, waiting in line for half an hour, signing in, waiting another hour before I see him or her and then getting my prescription to take to a pharmacy where it will be documented on my file and the doctor's details confirmed.
But apparently I'm not in Sidney anymore. I walked 10 steps to the neighbour's house (Pathi`s niece is a doctor), had a prescription 5 minutes later and went to the pharmacy 2 minutes away to wait 2 more min while he gathered together the meds. So the total process was about 10 minutes from the time I wanted drugs till the time I had them. And how much it costs for 2 kinds of antibiotics, a throat rinse and a cough syrup.... 6 bucks.
Haha, so accessing pharmaceuticals is the one system that is efficient here... hmmm... oh, good for me!
PS I'm feeling better already!
3 comments:
You're not in Kansas anymore?! haha good one! Good point though, Graeme refuses to go to the doctor because of the wasted time waiting. I'll only make an appt first thing in the morning when he hasn't had a chance to run late yet! haha
We can sympathise with what it feels like to be sick in Sri Lanka.
Our driver was so very helpful when Hugh was sick. Went off and came back with all the necessary potions. And the costs for him were very much less than if we (as tourists) had bought them. I hope you will feel much better soon.
I know the not in Kansas was lame but I had to pull it out. I liked in Europe when I had Aaron to tell my funny things to write... we were a good blogging team... not that anyone read those blogs (other than Judy)!!! And Fiona, ya, I am going with my friend today to the Ayurvedic doctor for this jaw clenching I have been doing since my second year in college. She said it only costs a dollar or two for 1/2 an hour!!! We'll see... they might give me the white price.
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