anyway, just posting my first-ever prescription medication here in oz:
i know, i never learn.
if i am in the philippines right now, i need not see a doctor to get antibiotics from the pharmacy. but since i am not, i sighed heavily before picking up the phone and making an appointment with a GP. it took courage to be able to tell the receptionist i want an appointment. not because i am afraid of doctors. but because i do not have medicare and the consult fee is $70.
i made the appointment during my lunchbreak - 1PM. i was 10mins late. the receptionist asked me to fill-out some forms. i paid the fee. then after 2mins of sitting at the waiting room, the doctor called me.
the consultation room is about the same size as my own consultation room at work. but the patient's chair - my chair - is positioned in such a way that i cannot see the doctor's computer screen. the doctor wasn't smiling. i feel awkward. i suddenly thought if my patients feel the same way when i escort them inside my room. i guess not. i hope not. because i smile at them from the time i call their name and usher them inside the room.
the doctor asked me what i do, and i awkwardly answered "i'm an audiologist". it's embarassing to have to see the doctor due to an ear infection caused by excessive use of cotton tips when i myself tell clients not to use cotton tips everyday!
otoscopic examination revealed fungal infection, as; inflammation, ad.
rx: ear drops - 2drops t.i.d. until saturday, as
ear drops - 2drops t.i.d. when itchy, au.
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