I got a flu last Thursday and I didn't feel too great on Friday so I decided to stay home. But to get the day of with salary I had to get a Doctor's Certificate. I had two choices. Either to visit private doctor and pay premium fee or use free public service.

I decided to try out public but it wasn't that simple. I had no clue which doctor or hospital I should use but my girlfriend found a list of all hospitals and doctors in this area. We headed to the closest one but it seemed to be closed (later on it turned out that it was doctor's flat - not an office).

Then we walked to the next hospital which wasn't that far. But I had a little bit fever and I didn't really enjoy walking. In that hospital we met an reception person who didn't know too much about anything. It was anyways clear that there was no doctor's reception before 4 PM and it was closer to noon at that point. Maybe I should have looked more acute case with bleeding and bones sticking out.

We got a new address from a man who seemed to take care of the hospital's visitor's coats. That address was supposed to be a place where there would be a doctor able to do necessary diagnosis for common flu. Unfortunately it required to use two trams and took us even further away from my flat. But there I got my diagnosis but because he was not the dedicated doctor for me he could not write that damn Doctor's Certificate. So I got some kind of temporary paper with diagnosis and obligatory stamp on it.

Then on Monday morning my girlfriend phoned around and found my doctor. His location actually turned out to be in the same building where we went first - on the other side of the building. So the web site had wrong information. But this doctor was not there because his duty starts at 3 PM and naturally only he was supposed to handle my case.

Finally in the afternoon we went there again. Now the right doctor was there but there was some troubles because my information wasn't on his computer. Because of this I had to fill some nonsense forms and hand it over to his assistant. After that he gave me a Doctor's Certificate. Finally.