I called my head teacher this morning, asking to see a doctor, and she told me to meet her at the school an hour early. Once there, she led me one block and around a corner to a clinic, where there was a form to fill out. A form. Like, just one. They ushered me down a hallway to a nice waiting room where I stayed for all of five minutes before seeing a doctor, which took perhaps ten minutes (and would have been even briefer if everything had not needed to be translated) as it was determined that I had no fever, so probably no bacterial infection, and I should mainline Sudafed (슈 다 펟 ) and Robitussin (or whatever it's called in Korean) and some other usually-OTC's for two days. The doctor explained that if I were still feeling bad after the two days and all the meds, I should return. I thanked him and we left, paying a whole $4.20 on the way out. Down the hall from there was the pharmacy, where we took the sheet the doctor had given me, gave it to the pharmacist, and a whopping two minutes and $3.60 later, I had meds for three days. No waiting, no consternation about coverage, just done.
I'm so impressed, it's almost okay that I have to work today.
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