Well, I was wrong, I was back just two weeks later!
When you set out to do a task, you make sure you have all the tools you need to get the job done properly, right?
So, when you're sick and you go to a medical doctor, you expect the good Doc to give you the best treatment options to get you back on the road to health again!
Appointment made, no long waiting time as back in the 'old days' before medical care became big business, when the doc took his or her time with their patients.
A few pleasantries, which I always enjoy as my doc is a lovely lady, followed by the usual -
What can I do to help today?
Vitals and symptoms checked, a diagnosis, a quick prescription, and I'm shown the door.
My usual goodbye is
Hope I don't see you again soon!
Doc knows me well enough by now not to take offense!
The pharmacy is in the same building, and I was done in no time, chuffed it all went so quickly, believing that this second round of medication would do the trick!
I was wrong, again!
I had a physio appointment for my neck problem and called to cancel because I now had bronchitis and was coughing my lungs out.
I can do chest therapy, you know.
It was like a light-bulb moment! Of course I've had that done in hospital for the same condition, and forgotten. But why, oh why, did my doc not refer me for physio when I'd been coughing for nearly three weeks already!
My physiotherapist went on to say that this cannot be a bacterial infection as two courses of strong antibiotics would have killed it.
I got the beating of my life, but boy oh boy, did she move all that phlegm that was stuck in the netherdepths of my lungs!
My emergency 'doc-on-call' prescribed an anti-viral antibiotic, nebulizing ampoules, and a course of cortisone.
I got a beating a couple of times again, got rid of copious fluids, fortunately first appointment of the day, as the sounds coming from her rooms would have woken the dead!
Had I not gotten rid of all of that, I for sure would have ended up with pneumonia!
A couple of physio treatments later I now am right as rain, or shall I not tempt fate and say, 99,9% well again!
Why would a medical doctor not make use of all the fields of medicine to speed up the recovery of their patients?
Hoping for a follow-up visit perhaps? Or not wanting our medical aid funds to be shared by other medical specialties?
Am I unfair to make that assumption?
It seems it is all about the money!
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