While there are definitely plenty of thing that I will not miss about India (the honking is seriously driving me crazy lately) there is so much I will miss. Today’s topic? The medical care. Yesterday I had an earache and fearing an ear infection (because I’m flying next week and do not want to fly with a bad ear) I went to the clinic. I walked in and asked to see the ENT specialist. 10 minutes later I was with the doctor, 10 minutes after that I was out of the place with a prescription. The only reason it took that long is because the computers were down and they had to hand write the receipts.
I decided while I was out to stop by and see my dentist just to make sure that everything with my root canal still looked good before I went home. I had to wait a bit longer for him, maybe 15 minutes; then I went in, we chatted, he checked my teeth (all is well) and he didn’t even charge me.
It isn’t just that it is crazy cheap to see a doctor here; it is that it is fast and the service is great. They have always diagnosed me properly and the medication has always worked and the doctors always remember me from visit to visit (although I do really stand out here so really I can’t give them too much credit for that).
Now it is back to the world of having to make appointments; making sure the doctor is on your health plan. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Sigh.
Of course I suppose I could just hope to not get sick as much any more.
Aside: Tomorrow I’m moving out of my apartment into a guest house for my final week and a half here. Will be sad to say goodbye to the place but just yesterday one of the toilets broke again and I didn’t have water for about a ½ hour so that is making it a bit easier to move on.
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