The medical system here is kind of absurd. You do not go to the hospital unless you are being referred to or if you desperately need to go to one, call for the ambulance to fetch you there. When you call for the ambulance, the center will decide which hospital will accept what type of sickness for the day. Therefore, it does not matter how far the hospital will be from your place of residence, you will be delivered there by the ambulance. If you walked into a hospital without being driven by the paramedics in an ambulance, be ready to be on the longest waiting list ever at any one ER.
So, if you feel sick or you feel that you are in need of some kind of medical advice, you go to your general doctor first, and from there you will be referred to go to other appropriate practitioners. Then with the report from there you go back to your general doctor, he will then prescribe your medication or further refer you to other specialists. The same chain of movement will follow.
You don’t get any medication from the hospital or the general doctors. You take the prescription and go look for the nearest pharmacy, or if you finished with the doctors after office hours, they will then provide you with the list of a 24 hour pharmacy. You will have to go to that pharmacy, ring on the bell, someone will answer the intercom, and then you put your prescription in a small hole where the bell is located. Then you wait, and after like 5 to 8 minutes, some will come to the small hole, give you the medication and tell you how to take them.
Don’t be surprised if you come across all sorts of general doctors here, it is like trial and error. Sometimes you get lucky and find a good general doctor from the first visit, but more than often you will have to be ringing on many general doctors’ doors before you find someone that you ‘think’ you can trust.
Hell, medical is such a big cartel of blood sucking business people here.
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