World Class Medical Hub??? Sure?
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Was it FT that contributed to this error, or, TRYING to be "world class"??
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S'PORE WOMAN UPSET OVER REMOVAL OF APPENDIX LATER FOUND TO BE NORMAL
I paid $1,400 for operation I didn't need
But docs followed standard practice for those showing symptoms of acute appendicitis
By Ng Wan Ching
October 31, 2006
SHE had severe tummy ache and her appendix was removed.
But Miss Gloria Lim, 26, continued to be in pain.
Miss Gloria Lim laments over her many hospital bills and for an appendectomy she feels she did not need. -- CHONG JUN LIANG
She was told three weeks after her operation that it was not the appendix which caused her symptoms.
She now needs to undergo more tests to find out what is wrong with her.
Naturally, she is upset that she underwent an operation which she felt was unnecessary.
RISK
But the doctors who treated her were following standard practice in removing her appendix.
Her symptoms had indicated a high probability of acute appendicitis.
In such cases, doctors go ahead and operate because diagnosis is difficult, and there is the risk of a perforated appendix, which is a medical emergency.
They quote international figures of 10 to 15 per cent of patients who have been operated on and who turn out, in the end, to have a normal appendix.
Miss Lim, a marketing executive, said she has already run up $1,400 in medical bills.
In an interview with The New Paper last week, she asked: 'Who will refund the operation fees and hospital bills that I have paid?'
Miss Lim started getting stomach cramps, diarrhoea and gastric pain on 22 Sep.
After visiting a local clinic twice, she decided to go to the A&E at Singapore General Hospital, on 25 Sep.
By the time she reached the hospital, it was past 8pm. She was admitted after the doctors there examined her.
SGH surgeons operated on her at 6am the next day.
She stayed in the hospital for five days and was told she had acute appendicitis.
'But the stomach cramps were still there,' she said.
'Each attack makes me go cold and sweat profusely in pain, scaring my aged parents.'
In one of those attacks, she fainted at home, on 5 Oct.
'I went back to the hospital on 6 Oct. They had told me if there was anything that did not feel right after the operation, I can go back to the hospital for treatment,' she said.
Instead of immediate treatment, she was told she had to pay $80 before she could get a queue number. And she would have to wait three hours.
Frustrated and in pain, she took a painkiller instead and went back home to rest.
On 17 Oct, she visited the outpatient clinic. 'There was another great surprise for me,' she said.
She saw a report stating that there was no inflammation of her appendix but it was removed anyway.
'Instead, the doctors think it might be something else such as parasites or a virus,' she said.
'Yet no further investigations were carried out and I was sent home despite my complaints of abdominal pain.'
INSURANCE
She said she was told on that day by a doctor that 'it is still unknown to them what caused the pain'.
She felt the surgery had been in vain.
Her abdominal area remains tender and the pain comes and goes.
'For that, I am paying almost $1,400 and more bills are coming my way,' she said.
Although she has insurance, she can claim hospitalisation bills only when they go above $2,000. She has to pay the first $2,000 herself.
As a marketing executive on probation, she gets paid only when she goes to work and she has no medical benefits. The hospital bills were paid partly from her Medisave.
'The days spent in the hospital and the medical leave after that caused me to lose income and suffer pain,' she said.
She said that each day she works, she gets $130.
But because of the hospital stay and the two-week MC, she missed out on 15 days of work adding up to $1,950.
'It may not be a lot of money for the doctors working there. But to me, it means a lot,' she said.
TEST RESULTS
On 20 Oct, after The New Paper contacted SGH, Miss Lim went to the hospital again to meet a doctor.
'That day, the doctor showed me that the surgeon wrote on his notes that my appendix looked inflamed. It was sent for tests. I found out that the hospital received the test results on 30 Sep that there was nothing wrong with my appendix,' she said.
She wants to know why, until 17 Oct, nobody had called to tell her that she did not have appendicitis.
'From 30 Sep to 17 Oct, something could have happened to me and nobody would have known what happened because my family would have gone to the hospital and told doctors that I had just undergone appendix surgery. They would all go away thinking it's just surgery pain,' she said.
SGH did not say why it took so long to tell Miss Lim that she did not have appendicitis.
'Now I am suffering double pain, from the surgical wound and from my original abdominal cramps for which nobody knows the reason,' she said.
She has decided to go to KK Women's and Children's Hospital to see if the doctors there can sort out what is wrong with her. -
well i hope she sue and claim back her rightful compensations from the hospital..as always.. when something goes wrong. everyone just keeps mum and hope it goes away..
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hub here hub there, jack of all trades, master of none
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india i heard is a much better destination.
as professional but at a much lower cost!!! -
I heard some news that few years back some kidney transplant patients got AIDS...from there...Originally posted by dragg:india i heard is a much better destination.
as professional but at a much lower cost!!! True or not? -
its okie, the surgeon who made that mistake has being recruited to work as FT here, so its safe to go to indiaOriginally posted by maggot:I heard some news that few years back some kidney transplant patients got AIDS...from there... True or not? 
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Never heard from countries like Switerland,Luxembourg or Sweden want to top in here, top in there, hub in here, hub in there, World class in here and there.......hai... Everyone in Singapore must be become a Elite or else he/she is a nothing......so sadOriginally posted by ctstalin:hub here hub there, jack of all trades, master of none 
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I hope singapore could turn into sex hub, gambling hub, pervert hub, gay hub, suicides hub, raping hub, robbery hub, kiasu n kiase hub, students sex filming hub and hub.. hub...hub and hub..........since our govt likes to hub. Mee Siam mai hub?
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they dont hub here and there yet enjoy a much higher quality of life.Originally posted by Meilin86:Never heard from countries like Switerland,Luxembourg or Sweden want to top in here, top in there, hub in here, hub in there, World class in here and there.......hai... Everyone in Singapore must be become a Elite or else he/she is a nothing......so sad
i am sure the swiss, swedes and luxembourgs are a much happier lot than singaporeans. -
Yes! i agree with dragg.Originally posted by dragg:they dont hub here and there yet enjoy a much higher quality of life.
i am sure the swiss, swedes and luxembourgs are a much happier lot than singaporeans.
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World class??
hehe, yup I agree....others are a much happier lot than Sillyporeans. I enjoy a much better health system here in Canada, although not perfect....but heck, nothing is perfect in life except God.
All those researchers or 'world class' FTs come here to Sillypore is because standards are lower and are usually rejects in their own systems and its just another avenue that the FTs will try to get a better life...But guess what, most will leave once they have milked Sillypore dry...
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Mee Siam mai hubOriginally posted by Lowclassman:I hope singapore could turn into sex hub, gambling hub, pervert hub, gay hub, suicides hub, raping hub, robbery hub, kiasu n kiase hub, students sex filming hub and hub.. hub...hub and hub..........since our govt likes to hub. Mee Siam mai hub? -
compared with who?Originally posted by ShutterBug:Was it FT that contributed to this error, or, TRYING to be "world class"??
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S'PORE WOMAN UPSET OVER REMOVAL OF APPENDIX LATER FOUND TO BE NORMAL
I paid $1,400 for operation I didn't need
But docs followed standard practice for those showing symptoms of acute appendicitis
By Ng Wan Ching
October 31, 2006
SHE had severe tummy ache and her appendix was removed.
But Miss Gloria Lim, 26, continued to be in pain.
Miss Gloria Lim laments over her many hospital bills and for an appendectomy she feels she did not need. -- CHONG JUN LIANG
She was told three weeks after her operation that it was not the appendix which caused her symptoms.
She now needs to undergo more tests to find out what is wrong with her.
Naturally, she is upset that she underwent an operation which she felt was unnecessary.
RISK
But the doctors who treated her were following standard practice in removing her appendix.
Her symptoms had indicated a high probability of acute appendicitis.
In such cases, doctors go ahead and operate because diagnosis is difficult, and there is the risk of a perforated appendix, which is a medical emergency.
They quote international figures of 10 to 15 per cent of patients who have been operated on and who turn out, in the end, to have a normal appendix.
Miss Lim, a marketing executive, said she has already run up $1,400 in medical bills.
In an interview with The New Paper last week, she asked: 'Who will refund the operation fees and hospital bills that I have paid?'
Miss Lim started getting stomach cramps, diarrhoea and gastric pain on 22 Sep.
After visiting a local clinic twice, she decided to go to the A&E at Singapore General Hospital, on 25 Sep.
By the time she reached the hospital, it was past 8pm. She was admitted after the doctors there examined her.
SGH surgeons operated on her at 6am the next day.
She stayed in the hospital for five days and was told she had acute appendicitis.
'But the stomach cramps were still there,' she said.
'Each attack makes me go cold and sweat profusely in pain, scaring my aged parents.'
In one of those attacks, she fainted at home, on 5 Oct.
'I went back to the hospital on 6 Oct. They had told me if there was anything that did not feel right after the operation, I can go back to the hospital for treatment,' she said.
Instead of immediate treatment, she was told she had to pay $80 before she could get a queue number. And she would have to wait three hours.
Frustrated and in pain, she took a painkiller instead and went back home to rest.
On 17 Oct, she visited the outpatient clinic. 'There was another great surprise for me,' she said.
She saw a report stating that there was no inflammation of her appendix but it was removed anyway.
'Instead, the doctors think it might be something else such as parasites or a virus,' she said.
'Yet no further investigations were carried out and I was sent home despite my complaints of abdominal pain.'
INSURANCE
She said she was told on that day by a doctor that 'it is still unknown to them what caused the pain'.
She felt the surgery had been in vain.
Her abdominal area remains tender and the pain comes and goes.
'For that, I am paying almost $1,400 and more bills are coming my way,' she said.
Although she has insurance, she can claim hospitalisation bills only when they go above $2,000. She has to pay the first $2,000 herself.
As a marketing executive on probation, she gets paid only when she goes to work and she has no medical benefits. The hospital bills were paid partly from her Medisave.
'The days spent in the hospital and the medical leave after that caused me to lose income and suffer pain,' she said.
She said that each day she works, she gets $130.
But because of the hospital stay and the two-week MC, she missed out on 15 days of work adding up to $1,950.
'It may not be a lot of money for the doctors working there. But to me, it means a lot,' she said.
TEST RESULTS
On 20 Oct, after The New Paper contacted SGH, Miss Lim went to the hospital again to meet a doctor.
'That day, the doctor showed me that the surgeon wrote on his notes that my appendix looked inflamed. It was sent for tests. I found out that the hospital received the test results on 30 Sep that there was nothing wrong with my appendix,' she said.
She wants to know why, until 17 Oct, nobody had called to tell her that she did not have appendicitis.
'From 30 Sep to 17 Oct, something could have happened to me and nobody would have known what happened because my family would have gone to the hospital and told doctors that I had just undergone appendix surgery. They would all go away thinking it's just surgery pain,' she said.
SGH did not say why it took so long to tell Miss Lim that she did not have appendicitis.
'Now I am suffering double pain, from the surgical wound and from my original abdominal cramps for which nobody knows the reason,' she said.
She has decided to go to KK Women's and Children's Hospital to see if the doctors there can sort out what is wrong with her. -
only if you have the money to go to a private hospital will they hub around at you...
recently (19 Sep 2006), i suffered a relapse of a slipped disc.. i'm not a very rich person and if i walked into some place like Gleneagles, i'd be bankrupted...
so, i go to the polyclinics to get a referral to the specialist doctors at the hospitals because a GP sure as heck isn't going to be able to do anything about a slipped disc..
off i went... in severe and intense pain... still attempting to keep cheerful while the back and the left leg feels as if someone is driving a red hot spike through it and twisting it around...
the wait for the doctor is LONG... and i mean really long.. i waited close to about 1 1/2 hours to see the doctor...
he's a nice guy, did the correct checks and then suddenly, in the midst of the examination of my back and legs, he starts to lament that a lot of doctors were pulled out to stand by for the IMF meeting! they were to go to their stations wherever they were and sit there in case any of the idiots here for the meeting were ill (btw, it was the last day of the IMF meetings) and they are severely short of staff.. and that they were short of staff anyway...
i thanked him and went to the counter to get my appointment with the orthopaedic specialist...
guess what? the closest appointment at the hospital with my history of this condition was... Jan 2007!!
so, i was going to suffer intense and murderous pain for 3 months before i could see someone about treating the pain??
any others was at Alexandra Hospital.. Nov 2006
i said okay to the nurse trying to get the appointments, she was most apologetic.. i told her "you've done your best".. i'll try to endure it
unfortunately, it just got worse and i ended up unable to stand up and ended up at the A&E where you could hear the doc there screaming into the phone trying to get an orthopaedic person to see me and only managed a week later.. so she jabbed me full of painkillers and sent me home..
the next day was even worse and somehow, folks managed to dig through their contacts and i got to see a doctor (finally) who put me through a whole lot of things and then with physiotherapy and all that, i hope i'm on the road to mending..
medical hub maybe... to others.. damn the citizens