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I had a better night's sleep, so I'm feeling slightly better. I did wake up coughing, but the tea worked. Since waking up I haven't had any hysterical coughing fits, so that's great, too.
My doctor's office has six doctors and one doctor in training, also a couple of other medical offices (physio therapy, speech therapy, phychologists, and more). If you need to see a doctor quickly you might not get an appointment with your own doctor. If you really want your to see your own doctor it might take a couple of days. For drawing blood you will have to go to the lab, but they do small emergency things, like a simple suture. My mother has high blood pressure and every year she has to get a battery of tests, in the past she would have had to go to the hospital, now she can go to the doctor's office.
If I had called I think I would have been able to get an appointment that day, if not the assistant would have been able to give me good information over the phone. But luckily it wasn't necessary.
I watch the BBC news regularly and I'm glad that we have the healthcare we have and not the one in the UK (especially Northern Ireland, which to me sounds like a third world country when it comes to health care).
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