Hospital visit

Now that you're all freaking out, yes I did go to the hospital today, but people go to hospitals like we go to doctor's offices. It's so not a big deal. Anyway, I have had a bad cough for 2 months now, and woke up this morning with an ear infection so I decided to make my way to our wonderful doctor. Let me tell you- best experience of my life. You enter the hospital and go to the front desk where you grab a token with a number on it and wait for that number to be called. It took them 5 minutes to get to me. Then you go to a registration desk where you tell them your name, phone number, and address. You give them 400 rupees ($8) and in return you get a sheet of paper to take down the hallway to the doctor's office. You wait there until the doctor calls you. I waited 5 more minutes. Dr. Gita called me in, we talked, she prescribed things and I was done in 10 minutes! You then walk back out to the waiting area where there is, get this, the pharmacy!!! You hand them your prescription, they get it all together for you and you get to keep the original scrip for instructions. You pay (for me it was ~600 rp which is $12. And this was for 5 medicines) and then you  leave. I was in and out in half an hour. It really is a beautiful thing.
Now I'm relaxing at home because I feel lousy and I'm taking a long weekend trip with the group to Khajuraho which involves flying (ouchie for the ear)


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