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$395 To Make a Doctor's Appointment.

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WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT COST ME $395 TO MAKE A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT? Image from the web. Well it wasn't as though the Doctor charged me to make said appointment. It was the situation that led to the high cost of seeing the doctor. Going back a few weeks now; my wife was having an adverse reaction to a prescribed medicine for a health issue she was having at the time. The drug hit her hard, so hard that as a consequence of taking it she collapsed. Our village as beautiful as it is, does not have adequate medical facilities, so in the case of an emergency like this, where my wife is unconscious on the couch, I rang my local town nurse who was out of town. She advised that I call the ambulance. This I did. The ambulance arrived as my wife was coming back to consciousness, so they did a few checks on her announcing that they could not find anything wrong with her. But advised that we go to the Doctor. The doctor is 60 kilometres from our place and always booked out. The