Honestly, I'm truly a person with very limited patience, except for a someone in the past. So, today, I am one very unhappy person having to wait 2.5 hours just for a stupid medical checkup required by my employer to-be. There's a reason to why I hated this particular clinic. Previously I've brought my mum and niece before and we had to wait for a relatively long time as well. Waiting to register. Waiting to be called. Waiting for medicine. This is the only general practitioner clinic with the longest waiting time I've ever come across. Don't talk about specialist, coz that's expected. But just simple consultation for casual fever or cough? That's unacceptable!
Anyway, I reached the place slightly after 10.30am and was told that there were 4 persons doing their medical checkup as well. Fine, I said. So how long should I wait? Half to an hour, I was told. So I went around that area, bought newspapers from 7 Eleven and went a few kilometres to pump petrol. I purposely drove at a very slow speed to kill time. Oh yes, I drank a lot of water at home at the advise of the nurse since I'm required to do the urine test. Then I bought another bottle of water at the petrol kiosk.
I got back to the clinic about 45 minutes later and the clinic was still filled with people. I started observing the surroundings. Mmmmm... each patient who went in took ages to come out. I'm perplexed. I mean, looking at them, I swear they don't suffer from any serious illness. Perhaps some cold or cough or fever. Nothing that requires tedious examination or injection for that matter. So why the hell such a long wait? Outside also wait, inside also wait. Take medicine also have to wait. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
I was actually sitting outside, still waiting at 12.00 noon. There was another last patient left by now. What the heck. From a room full of patients, now there was only me and the guy. I started to agitate. Mainly because my level of patience had plunged drastically. Second reason being desperate to answer nature's call. What do you expect? I gulped down a lot of water at home before 10.00am, drank another 500ml of water at the clinic and now, 2 hours later, I still have not gone to the toilet.
Now, the drama began. I walked up to the registration counter where there were 2 or 3 nurses.
"Excuse me, do you have the urine test bottle? My checkup requires the urine test"
"Huh? What? Bottle? Errr... at behind lar"
"Behind? Where behind?"
Another nurse interrupted..
"Eh, no lar, don't simply give. That one is used ones lar"
"Huh? ...................."
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Why the dots? Coz the conversation stopped just like that and I was left standing there. Okay fine. Wait somemore. After a few minutes I went up to ask again, if my turn is coming soon. And I was told to wait "inside" coz the medical officer would call me when it's my turn. What? I've waited 1.5 hours outside and it's only now that you tell me people coming for medical checkups were supposed to wait inside? Duh~~~
More waiting. Damn, the aircond is a lot stronger here and it's so darn cold, the urge to answer nature's call grew stronger. After pacing up and down for a good 20 minutes or so, I went out to the counter again, asking if I could get the urine bottle now coz I'm really desperate to go to the toilet already. And only at this time, the nurse decided to break the news to me that they don't know anything about urine bottles coz they don't handle medical checkups... I should ask the bottle from the medical officer inside. &$%#$*!#*&!! Why can't she tell me that right from the beginning?????
Thank goodness, my turn came soon after that. And you could have guessed, the first thing I asked for was the urine bottle. To my utter horror, the middle aged malay man mumbled to me "No urine bottle"... what the heck? I saw new empty ones at the corner of the room and this man is telling me there is none? Nyanyuk already is it? Goshhhhh~~~ Okay lar, can't blame him for his slow motion movement.. coz a few seconds after that, he reached out to a container on his desk to pass me the urine strip. Fine. Just anything okay, as long as I can pee lar!
Thereafter, everything was done hastily.. I think it's really a waste of time doing this stupid medical checkup which serves no purpose at all. The normal weight and height thingy, eye test, colour blindness test and x-ray. I'm so glad everything moved faster. However my happiness was shortlived... coz there I was again, waiting outside the medical officer's room, waiting to be called into the doctor's clinic. Do you know that it took the medical officer more than 15 freaking minutes just to bring the x-ray film and some yellow paper into the doctor's room? 15 freaking minutes just to carry a light particle and walk about 10 steps!
The nightmare continued in the doctor's clinic. Busy watching the television and reading his email. Oh, plus talking to me. Yea, simultaneously. Clever, right! Hell, no! Coz when he took my blood pressure, he paused so damn long, then pump pump pump somemore.. coz he was busy looking at the tv set on top. And then he got the cheek to tell me I got high blood pressure. (Update : I measured the next day at home with my digital pressure machine.. my BP is perfectly normal okay!!!).
Then, out of nowhere he scolded me for not filling up my particulars in the form. By then, I was just damn too pissed off and "lazy" to fight with him anymore so I just let it pass. Let him mumble and nag as much as he wants. Or else I could bloody retort back that it was his nurse who told me that I don't have to fill up the particulars first. Go sack your nurse lar, bodoh!
He went on to nag me on my urine test result. Why got glucose in your urine? You got diabetes ar? You'd better be careful. Come back for another test a month later. But it's up to you okay, it's your own body, yada yada yada... All my life, in all my blood test and urine test, I've never failed my urine test. Never! Why suddenly scare me with diabetes lar.. hahahahaha.. okay I gotta confess this. It only crossed my mind when I reached home okay. You see, back in the toilet, I actually dropped the urine strip on the floor but since the floor was dry, I thought it was okay. Maybe the urine strip picked up some other stuffs from the floor and therefore affected my urine test result?!!!
Getting back my form from the registration counter was another 15 minutes wait. Aiyah, need so long just to pass me back the form mer? Really inefficient I tell you! I swear, I won't come to this clinic anymore, unless it's damn necessary. A total waste of time and crappy people as well. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh~