1. In March of this year, the editor of Book called We are Iran contacted me to add part of my weblog into this book. Do not know if they ever did. but now they e-mailed me and told me the book is out. I saw this report on it, in Persian BBC.
2. Last week, I visited an internal medicine specialist in university hospital in Zurich when first I felt my flu symptoms are prevailing! As I said I went there and after an hour and encountering a weird Doctor who said I have viral flu and should rest with some simple medications. Not much happened. However, he also ordered me to get a blood test. And he gave me an appointment, if I don’t feel better I should come back to see him!
In any case, this past Friday I catch real cold. Running nose and sinus pain and the usual cold symptoms of cold. So, I rested the entire weekend and today Monday I went back to see the doctor.
My appointment was half an hour after the hour. After staying in waiting room for about 45 minutes. He comes out of his office and tells me he is sorry he was on the phone and had forgotten about me sitting outside! However, I have to tell you Doctors acting very cultural. They smile, shake you hand and introduce themselves!
I followed him into his physical check-up room, where there is this flat screen computer workstation and trauma bed. When he interviews me he types everything in computer. Even his prescription is done on computer and he just gets the print out!
Moving on, these are some of the conversation between us. And imagine he is talking with very heavy Germany accent!
Dr.: Entschuldigung, wie gefuellen Sie?
Me: I don’t feel that good, as you can see my voice is changed and I feel pressure in my sinuses, too.
Dr.: Ach, so. Es ist kein problem, kommen Sie mit mir! (then he grabs my hand and take me to the picture which is hang on the door! The picture shows sinuses and Bronchi of human.)
He starts by lecturing some in English some in German how the sinus get blocked and infection may take place! Can’t not believe it but this whole thing took about 30 minutes!
To interrupt him, I said thank you can we go on my blood test and see if there was anything going on with that!
Pulling up my result on computer screen, I see couples of numbers are in red. Then I go asking about them.
Me: what do they represent, Doc. These red numbers?
Dr.: Oh, those one, they are just slightly off where they are supposed to be! However, they can not be conclusive for anything, may be viral or bacterial infections!!
I see one of the largest numbers which apparently supposed to be less than 6 and it is 37! And I told him, this number is quite high, Doc.!
Then he goes,
Yes, but I would give you antibiotics if only this number is larger than 100!!
Then he stands up, walks around the room, thinks and goes, let me give you something to inhale as medication! Then he searches on internet for certain medication, goes to its information site! And reads,
“Oh, my boss has given this medication to someone!!!” And then all of the sudden he says no, what I have given you is good enough.
Starting once again explaining to me, it is not good to use antibiotics as they produce resistance and new medicine has suggested even if the mucus is yellow or green, it is not conclusive that may be bacterial infection…!!
All of the sudden, I stopped him from his ongoing preach…:
Me: Doctor, you are my Doctor, aren’t you?
Dr.: yes
Me: and you are not going to give me any medication, want me to wait until I feel really terrible! And you are saying it takes about 3 weeks to 2 months to get cleared of viral flu. right?
Dr.: Yes
Me (grabbing my backpack): So, bye bye Doc.
And I Walked out!!!
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