Ben put the boxes of medications on my desk. “Do I need to carry on with any of them?” he asked. The labels were in an unfamiliar language but there were enough similarities to the English names that I could work out what each was: two different antibiotics, two types of painkillers, and a decongestant that can be purchased over the counter here.
“Did they say what was wrong?”
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