A Crash Course in Running a Doctor's Office

This week I have been in charge of the office because Dr. Jampa is on vacation with his family. I have been manning the desk, selling herbal products, studying, giving some consultations and massage treatments, and refilling prescriptions, which has been the hardest part mainly because I only have been able to read only one Tibetan script, called uchen. There are in fact 8 different scripts in the language, and uchen is is basically only used for texts. Most people write in either ume or kyuk, and Dr. Jampa's chicken scratch is a fusion between the two. So it is kind of like if you could only read capital print, and were given a doctor's cursive writing to read, except that it is in a foreign language. Actually I think I have been fairing pretty well under the circumstances. Only one more day until he returns.