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Q: Can a foreigner still go to a Chinese hospital in Shanghai?
My friend broke his wrist and he said they wouldnt accept him at any chinese hospitals. I need to go to a hospital to get blood work and a refill on my medicine. I have always just went to Chinese hospitals in the past for this. He had to pay 1000 just to see the doctor at a foreign clinic.
10 years 36 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Anybody with enough cash is welcome in a Chinese hospital
Yes but you might need someone to translate your needs.
nbundy:
He just got refused at 3 chinese public hospitals in Shanghai last month.
Hotwater:
Never heard of this before. I've had a few friends, in Guangzhou, who have needed treatment in public hospitals.
Anybody with enough cash is welcome in a Chinese hospital
You can contact Dr Joe if you want to go to a chinese hospital in shanghai.he is a foreigners working with chinese hospitals he speaks good chinese and English.He helped me out when i had a serious medical complication.you can contact him using this number 17091870337
Stay away of the Hospitals as much as you can!
I'm in Kaifeng, Henan, and having some complicated fix done on my chew. Dentist is in the Hospital associated with Henan University, and her assistants address her with 'laucher'.
After my first visit with Chinese English speaker, ya-yi got some assistant, 20y old girl with good English, who's sitting by my chair during the re-modeling.
Chinese dentist will first ask patient to be steady/still on the chair, while she's cleaning extraction hole. It's painful procedure, and can't be done without anesthetic.
I replied: 'I have to move, when you touch the nerve, because it hurts. Why don't u use Novocain before the procedure?'
Only after some 10' talk and my convincing to numb my chew, she got me anesthetic.
Of course I paid for it, but I don't understand why all the hesitation to use the painkiller. In West, MD will apply sedative as soon as patient shows first signs of pain, and in China it looks permission of the patient is required first.
