Re: so it's not just here in America:)

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Hilarious, Jean! I hope you used that 45 minutes to have a donut!---Sharlene---

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> Cyncial post or , oh come on you have to laugh.

> We tell each other stories about people who want us to DO things for them

> but are amazed they would have to pay

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> Well so I have been asked by a local merchant if i would help out their

> relative visiting from nother country who ran out of the house quicky to

> make the plane and forgot meds Sure I c an see them today

> Then the phone calls start

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> How much will it cost?

> OK well

> so I explain well like the checkout at the store determined at end of

> visit but here is the ballpark

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> etc

> then not the relative but the patient calls They hav e landed, why do

> i need lab tests?, I got asked. well no one said that you did

> well why do I have t o spend an hour of my time?

> well you don;t

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> can you tell me what I should do they say becasue I missed X and I take Y

> and etcetc

> I say Really not appropritae to advise someone who I have not met nor

> taken hx from

> They want to know why s/he should pay me ?why come in? " i have been

> taking this for along time I know what I take etcetc'

> Of course you d but you want me to replace your medication

> sigh

> I explain that this is a foreign country. I get what the predictament is I

> am happy to help! but it is my license and my livelihood

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> S/he cancelled.

> With 45m to go- I am eft with that time useless

> May I never again say " only in America " !!

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