And pay your medical bill immediately.
That isn't always easy.
We visited a clinic in a small town, and being very pleased with the service, we wanted to pay. But they wouldn't take any money. We had cash and credit cards, but they said that they couldn't accept money and we must pay at the main hospital in Santiago. I was a little uncomfortable because we were still several days from Sarria and if something got messed up we wouldn't be able to get back to the clinic to work out the details.
In Santiago we took a taxi to the hospital and asked where we would pay our bill. People didn't seem to understand what we needed, but wanting to be helpful they sent us from one department to another.
We finally ended up at a place where they knew what it was that we were trying to do. However, they said that the office was closed that day and we needed to come back tomorrow afternoon.
We came back the next afternoon and went to the people that told us to come back. They gave us directions to the office that would take out payment. We go to the office, and find it's closed every afternoon. OK. At least now we know where to go. And a good thing we had scheduled several days in Santiago.
We go back the next day. Sure enough the office is open. And sure enough they understand that we need to pay for our clinic visit. However, they said that we cannot pay then and there. We have to go home and wait until the hospital sends us a bill.
Now we'll be even farther away and resolving any potential mistakes or misunderstandings will need to take place over multiple time zones.
So we go home. Eventually, months later, we get a bill from the Santiago hospital in Spanish. It's very difficult to understand, not many words, and a lot of numbers. Working with a dictionary we find the amount we need to pay. And we also find a penalty, something like 100 euros on top of a 150 euro bill, because it is now overdue! Defeated by the time delay and the geographical distance, we just sighed and sent off a check.