My questions about medicine in Japan

Frustrated, the word that fits my feelings best.  I recently visited the doctor and I left feeling dissatisfied.

• Why did the orthopedist recommend that I wear high heals up and down a hill? (Even after telling him that I had knee pain.)
• Why don't Japanese pharmacies and doctors issue medicine in the labeled boxes with the proper instruction sheet that comes in the box? Instead they issue pills in little plastic bags or in strips bounded by elastic bands. 
• Is it too much to ask for the information that comes with the medicine that I'm being told to take? 
• Why do they insist on summarizing the instruction sheet that comes in the original package for the customers without giving the actual instruction sheet? 
• Sometimes they don't even want to tell you the name of the medicine that you are being given! 
• Why do some doctors issue their own medicine instead of write a prescription for me to hunt for the cheapest pharmacy? 
• Why are there no general practitioners here? 
• Why do I have to go to 10 different specialists for 10 different symptoms, when there may only be one source of my illness?
• Why do the doctors ask whether or not I would like medication? Why else would I go to the doctor?
• Why do the doctors appear so clueless?
• Why is there no discretion in health care institutions? The receptionist wants to know your illness, the nurses then talk about it loudly, so everyone in the waiting room can hear and the doctor then gives the medicine and instructions to the receptionist to announce to you in the waiting room!
• Why are the medicine dosages so low?
• Why do they treat Allegra like a dangerous drug? It's kept under lock and key at the pharmacy!

I'm sure I have more questions, but I can't remember anymore right now.

Source: WotBlog

I found a blog in which the writer wrote about getting sick in Japan.   http://emilyhoward.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/sick-and-alone/