13 7月, 2013

Do you play doctor?

So, for normal medical care, most folk here go to their friendly, neighborhood clinic.  I have a fairly good one just down the street.  I think the longest I've ever had to wait on a walk-in is thirty minutes. The clinics all offer general practitioner services.  But many of them also have particular specialties (depending upon the primary field of whomever the clinic was founded by).

So I chose the clinic I go to because of their proximity to my apartment.  As I said, I'm quite pleased with their services.  After I had been going there about a year, I happened to be reading their sign more closely while waiting for an appointment.  They have two specialties.  One is 皮膚科 (dermatology).  That much I had gleaned from reading the clinic website before my first visit.  However, their secondary specialties are 性病 (STDs) and 勃起障害 (erectile dysfunction).

I find I can no longer look at the other patients in the waiting room quite the same way.  Are they there for a rash?  Or a rash?  Do they need some Preparation H, or some Preparation エッチ?  I also feel compelled to announce my mundane medical problem a little more loudly than is strictly necessary.

「インフルの注射だよ。」("It's a flu shot!")



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