๐ Household Medicine
์๋น์ฝ
I have had a couple of Korean roommates during my time in Korea, and they always freak out when they see my medicine cabinet.
ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ง๋ด๋ ๋์ ํ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๋ช ๋ช
์์๋๋ฐ, ์ ์ฝ์ฅ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฒํ๊ณค ํ์ด์.
In America, itโs really common to keep a lot of drugs at home. I think the main reason for this is that going to the doctor is expensive and time-consuming.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ง์ ๋ง์ ์ฝ์ ๋ณด๊ดํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ํํ ์ผ์ด์์. ์ฃผ๋ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ณ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
We usually have to wait a long time to see a doctor, even if we have an appointment, and getting an appointment isnโt always easy. Then, once youโve seen the doctor, you need to pay for it. So most Americans prefer to just medicate at home.
์์ฝํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ง๋ฃ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์ค๋ ์๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๋ค ๋งค๋ฒ ์์ฝ์ ์ก๋ ๊ฒ ์ฝ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ ํ์ (๋น์ผ) ๋น์ฉ์ ๋ด์ผ ํ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ ์ง์์ ์ฝ์ ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ๋ซ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์.
One of the staples of my medicine cabinet is Tylenol. We use it when we have headaches but also when we have general aches and pains. We often take Tylenol or ibuprofen after a night of drinking. I also have cold medicine, stomach medicine, icy hot patches, and a bunch of other over-the-counter drugs.
์ฝ์ฅ์ ํ์๋ก ์ฑ๊ฒจ๋๋ ๊ฑด ํ์ด๋ ๋์ด์์. ๋ํต๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ํต์ฆ์ด ์์ ๋๋ ํ์ด๋ ๋์ ๋จน์ด์. ์ข
์ข
์ ๋ง์ ๋ค์๋ ์ ํ์ด๋ ๋์ด๋ ์ด๋ถํ๋กํ์ ๋จน๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์. ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ฝ, ์์ฅ์ฝ, ์ฟจํจ์น๋ ํซํจ์น ๋ฑ๋ฑ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ด ์ด ์ ์๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์์ฝํ๋ ๋ง์ด ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด์.
For us, itโs just more convenient to have medicine at home than to go to the doctorโs. Since living in Korea, I much prefer going to the doctorโs when I have time. However, I still keep a stash of medicine in a drawer at home.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์ง์ ์ฝ์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ํจ์ฌ ํธ๋ฆฌํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ด๋ฉด์๋ถํฐ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ ๋ ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ข์์. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์๋น์ฝ์ ๋ ์๋์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |