What now seems to be an annual event – the obligatory medical examination: something that somehow escaped my blog last year. Foreign hospitals are not the places you want to be at the best of times; Asian hospitals especially so. Prodded, poked and jabbed in all sorts of places, by all sorts of people, for all manner of reasons. You are not a person, you are a lab rat on a conveyor belt, pushed from pillar to post until every blank box on your health form has been completed with figures and stamps.
Memories of the 2+ hours spent in a sweltering Saigon hospital last year didn’t fill me with enthusiasm when the Chinese medical was mentioned. However, after 20 minutes I came out unscathed following a blood pressure check, eye test, ECG, chest x-ray, ultrasound and blood test. Hoorah for the Chinese, why the heck isn’t it that straight forward in Saigon… oh wait, because it’s Vietnam!
A xx
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