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I knew about pseudo-myopia, but I really didn't think my own child would develop it.

As I was leaving the exam room, the doctor gave me a little wave and said 'bye-bye.'

When I was fourteen, I lost my father to a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Caring for the most intimate needs of a patient you've just met is tough work.

She went to the Takasu Clinic.

She got sick on her day off and had to find a doctor.

She is a qualified nurse.

She was deeply moved by the nurse's devoted service.

She's not a nurse — she's a doctor.

Every time she coughed, she suffered terribly.

She goes to the dentist every other day.

She went to Germany to study medicine.

She was carried to the hospital still unconscious.

She had a bad tooth pulled.

In 2000 Japan had the best medical system in the world, but the new medical residency system that started in 2003 visibly made things worse.

Please don't tell him the real name of his illness.

How about consulting a doctor and having them prescribe a sedative for you?

I'm worried because at the dentist I went to recently they told me 'you have periodontitis.'

Obstetricians keep declining in number, and obstetric care has fallen into crisis.

The high risk of lawsuits weighs heavily on obstetricians too.

When they get a fever, they can sometimes have a seizure.

What's the technical term for helping someone urinate with a urinal?

When I asked for a prescription at a nearby clinic, they made an openly unhappy face.

Singapore differs from Japan in that doctors there almost always all know each other.

A regular nurse handles urinal placement for penises and does pubic shaving for surgery, you know.

She had her son go fetch the doctor.

She had made a doctor's appointment.

She went to America to study medicine.

She regained consciousness.

In Japan, only women are eligible to take the national midwife exam.