They showed me the finger(s)...
(apologizes for the harshness of this article. Real world experiences though are often burdened by exactly this roughness.)
...and stuck it (them) up my a**...
That's what happens when you try to show a stranger the Alps, as they say paraphrasing a much better sentence found in The Big Lebowski!
(http://www.dymphna.net/randomquotage/lebowskiquotes.shtml)
My sojourn in Ukraine has elevated me still more, thanks to cleverly conceived ukranian hospital experiences...
I went to a private clinic yesterday, because for a week I have been suffering pain in the groins and in the pubes; a call to my insurance company directed me to one of the best and msot expensive clinics in Kiev, and at 9' in the evening, my adventure began.
The doctor spoke english, checked me, and decided that an orthopedic like him was of no use, and that thus a internal medicine doctor was needed.
I wait, a girl comes to act as a translator (more on her later), a brief discussion with this new medic, and some checking of "vital parts", and then, performing the full magic of his high profession, the willing-to-be wizards decides it's about time to give me a run for my money, and sticks the proverbial finger where the sun never ever shines... my only answer was "I had to come all this way to Ukraine to suffer this abuse?".
Didn't help.
Once the excercise was finished (with the girl smiling her guts out...), they say it's time to see an urologist also, to eliminate the possibility of the problem being something serious involving urether or the prostate.
Bang! The simple pronounciation of that word, "prostate", in a easy way a-la-Maude Lebowski, already gave me a hint, a terrible one.
Another round of foreign fingers...
I mean, is it what, a common belief in Ukraine that every illness must be checked through your ass hole?!!!
Nevertheless, I was diagnosed a little hernia, how glad I was, and given some medicines.
But I will forever keep with me the sweet memory of my visit to Ukraine... :D
Lory