I’m down with a cold with fever and sorethroat… possibly due to my trip to the Rockies and also a rainy/windy day yesterday.

I dragged myself out of bed to go to the doctor’s… I’m covered with a compulsory student insurance, but when I got to the student clinic on campus, I was told I needed an appointment to see a doctor (even for cases like flu, fever, etc?!). I was advised to go over to another walk-in clinic nearby where my insurance card is accepted… so I did. When I got there, it was 4.30pm. The clinic opens till 6pm, but I was told that they were not taking in any more patients for the day?! This will never happen in Singapore, where clinics will register all patients till the closing hour.

So I walked back to the hospital where the student clinic was located… I was told I could go back tomorrow morning and they would slot in an “urgent appointment” for me, or I could go to the hospital’s urgent care center… which I did. To my horror, they wanted $700 for me to be seen by a doctor and they wouldn’t accept my insurance card. What kind of a public hospital is that?!

Having no other choice, I walked back home, took my own medication and went to bed.

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