Doctor: Hi! Long time no see! I need to rush. There is a patient that has just come to me and I need more medicine.
Friend: Why? What happened to the patient of yours?
Doctor: Oh! He has a sever wound.
Friend: Is that all you cure or are there other diseases?
Doctor: There are many illnesses, too many to tell you. The major ones were major wounds, birth problems, poisoning, and mental illness. Many would come to me and cure them. Wound were found everywhere, but most of the wounds that I have cured were found around the knee. Many pregnant woman come to me to help them deliver their baby. The poisoning in caused by the deadly animals that we have here in Egypt. Mental illness comes mostly in the older people. They become insane and crazy. Their cures vary. Ancient Egyptian chemists excel in preparing and extracting drugs form mineral, botanical, and animal substances. However ancient Egyptian cures were based on herbs especially vegetable and other foods. Drugs were used in pills and ointment form, and drops. I used all these and others to cure my Majesty's people.
Friend: Do you have many patients?
Doctor: It depends on the type of year it is. If this year it is thriving with food, then there will be an average amount of patients, because there are so many bugs and animals tat live in the food and in the water that it contaminates the food with poison. In years of drought, there is more than enough patients for me to cure in a whole day. There would be abut 100 patients a day when there are droughts. Also when the Nile floods and there are a lot of people that live so close to the water that, sadly get injured or badly, die.
Friend: Do you charge money
Doctor: For some specific people I don't charge any medical aide, but for the commoners, I charge them. I charge them each 3 blocks of gold. The people that I don't charge are the Pharaoh, the army, the scribes and the merchants and their wives.
Friend: So how are the Gods helping you? I suppose they are helping you one way or the other.
Doctor: Imhotep, the God of Medicine, is always here to watch over my shoulder so that I can do my work well. Bes, he scares the bad spirits form the body of the injured. Anubis, the god of mummification will make sure that the Pharaoh that had died will be able to have a wonderful in the afterlife. Osiris will take care of the people that die and will live in the underworld. All of these Gods along with other Gods, help me.
Friend: How long was your training?
Doctor: My training was very long. It lasted about 45 years. I didn't enjoy the training I was obligated to do. I was really miserable. I didn't really want to live after the first 20 years. My training was obviously hard. The scribes made us memorize the arts of medicine from a book. There were many weird scribbles on the piece of papyrus that I didn't understand at all.
Friend: If you didn't like being a doctor, why don't you resign? I mean it is so hard for you going back and forth and it's always dangerous.
Doctor: In a sense I did want to be a doctor, but when I was in training, I felt that I wanted to give up and become a commoner, but then I thought that being a doctor, I could be important after all. And besides, my whole family were doctors, why shouldn't I?
Friend: So when is your next trip to war, or do you not go?
Doctor: Sometimes I go with the army. If the situation is terrible, then I don't go with them, and another doctor substitutes me. War is not easy. There are many injured and many dead. The amount of people in war that die is really hard to tell you. There are about 120 dead in one attack, so you can imagine how many died in the whole war.
Friend: What is the most freakiest disease that you have ever witnessed?
Doctor: Well, I remember a disease that I don't know what it was. It was so weird that I would have resigned that instant. It wa someone that was coughing blood, sneezing blood, and crying blood. It was so scary!
Friend: Do you have to record everything you do?
Doctor: I have to record every single second of time. Everything that I do is wrtten on papyrus. Every injured, dead, half-dead, operation, everything needs to be recorded. A scribe, Mahashet, would follow me. As the time passed, he became my close friend. What time is it?
Friend: Oh! I better let you go!
Doctor: Thanks! Nice to meet you!
Friend: Nice to meet you too! Bye!
Doctor: Bye!