not the busiest

But I don’t think this is my most densely packed series of lectures ever. I’m pretty sure there were even more in the UK in early February 2008, at the time of the “Prince and Wolf” gathering with Latour at the LSE. And I was also really sick that time, as always used to happen to me in London (and it was always a throat infection, too).

I had an even worse throat infection for the first Speculative Realist Workshop the previous year, and the pain was really brutal. Went straight to a pharmacist in Cairo upon returning at 2 AM, and (luckily for individuals if unluckily for public health) you can get antibiotics in Egypt by simply requesting them. In fact, you can get anything upon request short of maybe codeine or valium.

Overall, I like the Egyptian medical system better than any I’ve ever dealt with. It’s cheap, low in paperwork, the equipment is often very good and the doctors well-trained (Egypt provides a huge proportion of the doctors for other Arab countries, not to mention a large proportion for Western countries). I’ve heard lots of complaints about the nurses in Egyptian hospitals, though I’ve never had to go to the hospital there. Nursing seems to be more of a menial job than a profession there, and the complaints I’ve heard tend in that direction.

But I digress.