Getting Sick - and Healthy - in Dubai

The really bad thing about getting sick in a foreign country is that an attack of the least little malady can still ruin business or pleasure, rendering thousands of dollars expended as not much more than a regretful waste.

The good thing about getting sick in Dubai is that help is not far away.

Just visit the nearest pharmacy and the well educated pharmacists will listen to your symptoms, ask questions and then dispense the finest in medications and advice. If the patient emphasizes that he or she has to work and be sharp in doing so, care will be taken to avoid medications that cause drowsiness, and special energy vitamins might also be prescribed.

No doctor visits are necessary, no insurance forms have to be filled out and the cost is reasonable.

A powerful and well known antibiotic prescribed in the United States, along with a pain killer for headaches associated with sinus conditions, an effective but pleasant-tasting cough medicine, a famous brand-name decongestant, cough drops and the special multi-vitamin with minerals were all acquired in about five minutes for approximately $66.

Thus, before one could even arrange a doctor visit in the U.S., this patient was beginning the way to get well, just in time to witness Curlin's run for $6 million and a more hallowed place in history.