Miracle Medicine

Eric got to experience our first time using the Korean medical system today.  It seemed that he had the same horrible cold that I had a couple weeks ago until he woke up this morning feeling and looking completely terrible.  However, there is no word in Korean for "sick day" so he had to go to work anyway.  Fortunately one of the Korean teachers talked him into walking over to the clinic that is close to school and within thirty minutes they had given him an anit-biotic shot, two chest x-rays and fifteen pills to take each day for the next three days.  Tonight he feels almost normal.  Oh and everything cost him the equivalent of about $40.  That's without any insurance.  Once we have our insurance cards he can go back and get most of it refunded. Who knows what was in that shot or all the pills he will be taking for the next three days but apparently it's something that works almost instantly.