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...About the Timing "When will I get back to normal" is a hard question to answer, even for a good doctor...
...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...Which makes the town's main social event, the annual Eucla Golf Day in May, something of a wingding. They've even had clergymen from Esperance, 900 km away, drive in for the bash, which last year raised $A5,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Considering the state of the rocky course spiked with grass (fairway 9 also doubles as a rifle range, but not on the same day), that says a lot about the town's ability to put on a party spread. Even the police are roped in for the occasion. "Before Golf...
...accent did not convince anyone that I was a local and my occasional lapse of grammar or vocabulary made my origin even more obvious, I could still understand and be understood. That is until I had Catalán to contend with.After two weeks, I worked with a different doctor. The first patient entered and fifteen minutes of Catalán conversation ensued. Afterward, I politely asked the doctor if he would please speak Castellan since I have not learned any Catalán. “That is your own disability” he replied. Weeks later...
...Instead I volunteered my services. I thought that if I had survived my capture, I could survive anything. My experience in Syria made me a tougher man. I became a doctor in the Israeli army, and am now chief commander of the medical forces. I go to catastrophes around the world. I helped after the Kenya bombings in 1998, the earthquakes in Turkey and Greece in 1999 and I spent three months in Mombasa. I wouldn't serve if it weren't in the search and rescue. We don't carry guns...