Who says you can't put a price on health?

The Peruvians seem to be just like all those old ladies who stop you in the street in Britain in the middle of the summer and tell you to put a hat on your poor baby so he doesn’t freeze. They seem to be so over-cautious about health that they want to rush Daniel to hospital as soon as he sneezes, so we had been holding off taking him to the doctor until we would have taken him in the UK. It's only a cold we kept saying to ourselves. Anyway, yesterday the poor thing was very docile and had a temperature that didn’t seem to be going down with Calpol so we tried to take him to the doctors, only to find it was shut on Saturday mornings. Looking at our white skin a helpful taxi driver took us to one of the most expensive clinics in Peru to see a doctor who charged us 120 soles for the privilege of 10 minutes of his time. (About £20, but the equivalent of £120 for the Peruvians!)
“Yes, he's ill,” he tells us (in Spanish of course). “He has an upper respiratory infection.” and proceeds to write out a prescription for some antibiotics in case it’s bacterial.
‘Oh good,’ I think, ‘I’m glad I brought him.’

So I decide to look up Upper Respiratory Infections's on the web last night and what does it say?!
Upper Respiritory Infection, also known as THE COMMON COLD!

PS. Daniel was back to his smiley self this morning, the worst of the cold seems to have passed.