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Article: A doctor in the house: Travelling with your own medical kit can keep you healthy and ready for business. (Business Travel).(Brief Article)
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- CMA Management
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Society of Management Accountants of Canada. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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It's a scene you don't want to repeat. It's 3 a.m. and you're lying in a hotel room bed in an exotic, faraway city. You're there on business and have an important meeting later that day. The previous evening, you joined local business colleagues for dinner, eating foods that your Canadian stomach had never experienced. The cramps begin and intensify as you make numerous trips to the bathroom.
Some call it Montezuma's Revenge or Bali Belly. The medical term is traveller's diarrhea, a condition that is unpleasant and debilitating, particularly to the stressed-out road warrior who must be in top form in five hours to ensure that a lucrative contract is signed.
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