Japanese doctors, hospitals and pharmacies

[Kamisama]

This is interesing, but not as informative as i would hope.

[wintersweet]

and i care about this.. why?

Oh, let me think.

I know! BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET SICK IN JAPAN.

Perhaps if you start to read a post that doesn't interest you, you could hit the back button and go read something else, eh?

Maciamo, excellent post--thank you. It seems by the time a person needs to find this kind of information, it's already an emergency. So it's better to read it ahead of time. I was surprised in Taiwan that I had to go to the hospital for a problem I had--in Taiwan, you go to the hospital for all medical issues, not just emergencies or critical problems. It sounds like doctors in Japan are more like in American than in Europe. In the USA housecalls have been virtually unheard-of for decades.