GP at clinic refused patient...
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because he has reached the day's quota.
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wahhh, ask him to be a sales rep better then...
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doctors aspire to save their patients from their ailments
this one must be the recent trend when his mom says: 'boy ah study hard be doctor den earn alot of $$ hor!'
either damn lazy or damn heartless! -
wat a nice doc......give biz to other clinics.....
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where did u hear or read that from?
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IQ!=EQ
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the new paper...todae...Originally posted by kensongs:where did u hear or read that from? -
it's common in other places, for example, Canada ...
but it's only cos healthcare is semi-public and docs all belong to a union and have to obey union rules ....
I wonder what's this chap's excuse though ... -
SG where got such excuse? Not that I know of. Where's mushroom?
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whose quota?
maybe he sian,
kao liao, and he wants to go home. -
Reached the day's quota, but still within opening hours or not?
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wad happen to the patient? only sum ting happen den paper report rite? other time refuse oso LL.
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dun be surprise when you go to see specialist
or wat
they charge according to time one
so if you talk cock with them
they will be happy to talk cock with you too -
the mother should ask the doctor come out also, since bibi is having high fever. if the doctor still say meet quota, the mama can make BIGGER noise
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let's await the GP's reply...
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where's his ethics
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Complain to the press. Bad press will bling the high-and-mighty down!!
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BUT I WANT DOC TO SEE MY BOY
No doctors should turn away a patient especially when the door to the clinic remains opened. Did she request for a jump queue or was it the doctor assumption? On one hand, we have doctors competiting for patients and then this report that doctors are overwhelm?
Mum and feverish son turned away from Woodlands clinic 40 minutes before closing Doc sets limit of 50 patients as he's overwhelmed No patient quotas for many clinics
August 30, 2007
HER son was down with high fever on a Sunday night. Their usual clinic was closed, but she managed to find one that was open.
They reached the clinic in Woodlands more than half an hour before its closing time.
But the clinic's counter staff did not allow her son to see the doctor.
Their reason: They had reached their quota of patients for the night.
Madam Linda Mohd, 37, told The New Paper that she noticed that her 8-year-old son had a fever on Sunday. His left cheek was also slightly swollen.
After taking his temperature and finding it was 39.5degCelsius, she decided to take him, along with her daughters aged 10 and 7, to the clinic.
She said she got there around 8.50pm. It was open and its closing time was displayed as 9.30pm.
ASKED FOR NUMBER
Madam Linda said: 'The staff asked me what my number was and when I told her I had none, she said the clinic had already met the quota of 50 patients for the day and they were not taking in any more.'
Madam Linda said she was surprised and upset.
Asked why she did not insist on seeing the doctor, she said: 'I did not want to create a scene. The staff did not even look at my son or take his temperature.
'My impression was not good. How can you turn away sick people before the closing time, especially a child with fever in this case?'
Unable to find any other clinic that was open, Madam Linda, a nurse, went home and managed to bring down her son's fever by using a rectal suppository, which she had kept at home for suchemergencies.
She consulted a doctor at another clinic the next day.
Her son was diagnosed as having parotitis or mumps. This is an inflammation of the parotid glands, which are saliva-producing glands buried within each cheek.
He was prescribed medication and Madam Linda was given five days of medical leave to care for him.
When we spoke to the general practitioner whose clinic had turned her away, he admitted that he enforced such a quota - because there were simply too many patients.
However, none of the 20 other clinics we checked with has such a quota system.
Twelve said they have more patients than they could handle. But they have other ways of coping with that. (See report on facing page.)
The GP said: 'We are one of the few clinics open on Sundays for about three hours from 6.30pm to9.30pm.
'If each patient takes 5 to 7 minutes for consultation, I can clear up to 10 patients an hour. So we have no choice but to limit it to 50, and even so, we may stay till nearly midnight to see all of them.'
He does not display any sign about the quota.
He added: 'Of course... anyone who has a real emergency, suffers from asthmatic conditions or has a high fever... we will admit them and let them jump the queue.'
When told that Madam Linda had claimed his staff had not checked her son's temperature, he said they had been trained to do so and assess real emergency cases.
He said: 'I do not think there was any real mismanagement on the part of the staff in this woman's case.
'She is unreasonable, I think, to expect to jump a queue when other patients have taken the trouble to book their consultations.'
The doctor felt that if Madam Linda felt her son's high fever was an emergency, she should have told the staff and they would have assessed it.
He said doctors who run their clinics solo, like him, are often overwhelmed by the number of patients.
His clinic is open daily, and three days of the week he is there morning, afternoon and evening. On the other four days, he opens for only one or two sessions.
The doctor is aware that some patients queue from 7.45am on days his clinic opens at 9am. So he encourages his regulars to call for a queue number before showing up.
He said: 'Frankly, we are overloaded. As doctors, of course, we would want to take in as many patients but we are humans too.
'We can't run the risk of over-working ourselves to the point that we are so fatigued and prescribe inappropriate medication.'
- additional reporting by Yeh Wei Xuan
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I am guessing that in this case, the clinic had given out their quota of 50 queue numbers, but have not completed the consultation with all 50 patients (at the time the woman arrived with her son), which may go beyond the closing time by the time all consultation was done.
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i dun think is quote number lar
is the Dr have set a quote how much he must earn per day
after earned enought
can close shop liao lar
frankly speaking Dr study so much is to heal the sick?
i doubt so , if pay them peanuts . you think will they still bother to
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Being busy is unfortunately not a good enough excuse. If the GP expected the no of patients to exceed what he is capable of seeing in that 3 hours, he should hire a locum to help him with the workload.
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wah. part time lawyer too.Originally posted by noahnoah:dun be surprise when you go to see specialist
or wat
they charge according to time one
so if you talk cock with them
they will be happy to talk cock with you too -
then hospital nurses how?paid a fraction of a doctor's salary...have to do a lot of things that other people wouldnt want to do...fortunately some people really like their jobs.Originally posted by noahnoah:frankly speaking Dr study so much is to heal the sick?
i doubt so , if pay them peanuts . you think will they still bother to
heal the sick
not like that doctor in the report...his excuse very CMI lor...he might be a doctor due to his academic capabilities...but I dont think he can get respect as a medical practitioner. -
And that is a GP. What is happening to the world man.
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for me, I think the doctor could be more careful with his end notes.
something to the tune of "if we are tired, we may not give the correct treatment and medicine". To me, it is like a thinly veiled threat and I just not too comfortable..
but then, I still feel that the doctor would not have reject a critical case. afterall, they are in this profession to better their patients.
There may be other details that we are missing to get the whole picture.