I decide to have a peek at some other travel blogs to find out what others write about. One fellow blogger calls himself "His Dudeness". When I first start reading one of his entries there were lots of mentions of GPs, and I assumed he was a doctor. But no, His Dudeness, who comes from the Netherlands, isn’t a doctor at all, and his connection with the medical world is that he funds his trips by participating in drug trials. He goes into a lot of detail about the side effects, none of which sound pleasant. He says that he's just finished a trial involving being dosed with a new antibiotic intravenously, twice a day, for an hour at a time, for eleven days in a row. He describes the side effects as including heart palpitations,
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