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Issam Kassabieh
This is very true, I do not think I have read anything close to this although it is very common. I experience it first hand in my everyday life. The problem in Dubai is that we all have so much to do and not enough time to do it. If you are a student over here in the UAE, not only you are expected to study, but you are expected to work part time, or get a small income that would serve as an allowance keeping in my you also want to have time to go out and enjoy yourself on weekends and holidays. I believe this a whole lot of things to do; sounds little, but not when you are trying incorporate into a 24 hour day. There are tons of things to do over here but that is not the only problem. For me, I have another; time spent on commute is ridiculous, I get home after 2 hours spent on the road between traffic, street lights and noise "imagine the stress" and then I get home and I do not want to sleep regardless of how tired I am just because I feel like I need to "detox" and have some fun, watch a late night movie or listen to some music which regularly leaves me up till 2am knowing I have an early start the next day. Maybe my comment is a bit out of shape, no structure, long sentences, but lack of sleep is frustrating and I can't seem to find a solution to balance it out.
innu
I am not too sure about how doctors and hospitals are being monitored. For the last one year since we got an insurance I have noticed shocking increase in the medicines prescribed even for ordinary infections in children. My 8 year old daughter was prescribed one dose of antibiotics and when there was still a bit of infection left she was asked to get on to antibiotic injections when the child showed no signs of weekness or infection by a pediatrician at a clinic. Being from a family with doctors I got suspicious especially since the doctor just passed the message for the injections through her nurse. And I was told the doctor will see the patient after 5 days of injections. All this at the sudden presence of insurance.
I took my daughter to another doctor who got rid of all the medicines on the list and gave just one antibiotic and the infection was gone---no expensive and painful antibiotic injections and no additional medicines.
Unnecessary use of medication will only lead to more health problems.
Talking about heart disease, do you know a regular cholestrol test cannot be done at certain clinics without paying for a consultation(if you have an insurance) with the doctor whether you want to meet that doctor or not?
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