The appointment process changes

Back when I was a child, we went to the doctor when we were sick, and when we were REALLY sick, the doctor would actually come to our house. It didn’t happen often for us, but the option was available.

My mother took care of all the illness cases in our house. She had some purple syrup medicine that was a cure for anything that ailed us. If we had colds, out came the purple syrup. When we had a tummy ache, we drank the purple syrup. 

My sister and I wonder now what was in that special medicine that cured every ailment among us, but we do not know what that purple syrup was. All we know is that it always made us feel better.