Soon after
arriving in Venice Jo-Ann became sick with the flu my time was to come later. By Bolzano (just below the Austrian boarder), Jo-Ann was not well so we went off
to the regional hospital to see a doctor.
We figured they would listen to her chest, take her temp and send her
off with antibiotics.
We waited an
hour to see the doctor – fair enough.
Then they wanted a chest x-ray as she was coughing heavily – fair enough
another 2 hours. Then they wanted to do
a CAT scan as they just wanted to be sure it wasn’t a blood clot that spread to
her lung – WHAT?
Italian doctors
clearly aren’t used to being questioned by their patients. They were most perplexed when I said that we
were not having the CAT scan. In the end
they figured I was too much for them and sent us up stairs to see a lung
specialist. He was a nice fellow who
decided in very quick time it was a flu and gave us some antibiotics and a
puffer.
We left the
hospital 4 and a half hours later but only 15 euro lighter.
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