Health Care in Cairo, there's nothing like it!

I am sick. Kind of. And here is the story of how health care is run in Egypt.
I usually hate getting sick or having health issues in foreign countries, not like it happens very often. But being under the weather away from home is never fun, I even get a little sad when I’m sick at college and that’s only 25 minutes away! As many of you know I have quite a number of piercings in my ears, and only in my ears. And the one I got last October apparently has not healed completely so it got infected ☹ so my dear friend Hend, I swear she’s always there to save the day, takes me to her trusted family doctor. The office was in between a schwerma shop and a smelly barber shop on the 3rd floor. So I signed myself in on the ripped piece of wide ruled paper on the front desk and looked around at the random pieces of furniture as I was wondering what kind of doctor’s office this really was. There were no nurses or anything like that, just the doctor and his one employee taking my $13 fee. After a 20 min wait, I finally got to see him and he was this middle-aged, balding, homely man with a friendly face ☺ He explained to me that I have an infection in my cartilage that was most likely caused by bacteria in the water or dust, Egypt in general. The most interesting part of this story is my medical protocol; I have to get an augmenten-like antibiotic shot in my ass ever 12 hours for the next three days. Great. In the U.S. I would most likely be coming back to the doctor to get this shot, but no this is Egypt, I get the shot from the pharmacist. I looked at him like he was nuts, there was noooo way I was going to let some boo-boo pharmacist stick a needle in my butt! Unfortunately, I have no choice so off to the pharmacy I went. After looking at my prescription, he takes out the syringe and bottle of antibiotic, and without washing his hands or even putting on some latex gloves, he continues making my medical concoction. I was not happy about the lack of sanitation whatsoever. He points to the back room of the pharmacy, which was honestly a small, gross storage room where he proceeded to tell me to bare my behind for this injection. Not fun. Just wanted to pass on this interesting piece of info about how apparently all dirty pharmacists in this country are ‘qualified’ to just stick needles into people without using any kind of sterilization procedure, I’m praying I don’t get some kind of random infection in my ass.