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Q: what was your worst Chinese hospital experience?
What was your worst Chinese hospital experience?
I think I need to have a wisdom tooth pulled here but I am not really looking forward to it... Help me prepare for the worst.
9 years 33 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I had teeth pulled, root canal treatments and implants made in different hospitals, one of them was this "No 1 People's Hospital" and the others were private. I felt the guys did a better job at the People's hospital than the private clinic for 10% of the price, but you might want to get ready for some old school treatment style.
mArtiAn:
I think every hospital i've ever passed in the street in all of China has been called the No.1 People's Hospital.
been fortunate to have good hospital experience as many friends are boss doctors. however, recently when had to go for government medical exam at clinic, not so happy. treated like a zoo animal. when removed shirt and tech saw chest hair, big announcement. instead of me and tech in room to do EKG, had five gawkers, with iphone in hand. Pissed. How would you like a strange person, and of the opposite sex shooting pics of you while undressed and wired up? My Chinese skills put all of these pervs in their place!
jetfire9000:
remember this from the old post, where I made sure not to neg you for being pissed about the professional behavior... but I also wanted to add, that If your Chinese skills were better... they could have put the female ones "in their place" in bed with you. (in other words, why get angry when you can get laid?)
tbh66:
As I am new to this city, not knowledgable enough to find the nearest 1 hour hotel to take the little photographer to. Then we could swap pics and...
Not had any real trouble at the doctors. But I go to private clinics for dental work.
I've not done badly on the whole. Even got brought in in an ambulance and kept in overnight once after being found past-out in the street and I didn't have any money (someone had nicked my wallet). I think I blew their minds later when I walked in and paid them the 600 yuan I owed them.
to be ordered go to the other hospital 4 times ,with our sons 40 degs fever within one evening , is just the beginning of a crazy bad stories. shall I continue ?
3 Years past in Zhangjiagang. I was experiencing some difficulty breathing, generally feeling really unwell. Went to the hospital, had the chest examined then the x-ray. I was told that it was just congestion in the chest and possible flu symptoms. I had my very own thoughts. We've all had chesty coughs and flu many times throughout our lives and we know the feeling, this was very different.' Here take this medicine' and you'll be fine in a few days, Like hell I was. Few days later I experienced real difficulty breathing and returned to the hospital who just relayed the previous diagnosis. I returned home knowing something just wasn't right. So canceling all classes and traveled to Shanghai Pudong airport took a ticket to London and home, Left the baggage at home went straight to the hospital where I lived for the next 10 days. It emerged that I had a Pulmonary Embolism. Which was very severe. It even showed on the x-ray I took from the China hospital. And the UK hospital could believe that the flight hadn't killed me. I also just previous to this experience had visited the same hospital a few months previous, due to a dog bite which left a large deep open wound. They told me just to wash it under the cold water for 2 hours. No offer in injections. i later went to a different hospital were the correct treatment was administered. China hospital.. No thanks. I'd rather jump on the a flight. Really no faith in then. Just my own personal experience and opinion of course.
laowaigentleman:
When I first came to China I started to experience a bloated sensation in my chest. It felt like my heart was swelling and the swelling was pressuring the ventricles. I could feel a heavy pulsation through my body and I spent the next three hours lying still on my bed in fear that a heart attack was imminent. At the time of experiencing this for the first time, I was 28.
The next day I asked to see a doctor. The doctor merely held my pulse for a few seconds and then had me give a blood sample. I was told the next day that I was fine.
I had assumed that I had contracted some kind of viral infection on first arriving in Hunan because of the extreme and sudden shift in the climate when summer almost immediately changes to winter. I was looking up my symptoms and assuming I had something like meiocarditis, which is a viral infection of the heart.
Recently I had a similar episode. I've no hope of ever being sure of what this problem actually is as long as I am in China, but I now think it was some kind of toxic shock reaction to certain compounds which are in the food here. I wash everything I buy now very thoroughly.
When these episodes strike I can take anti-inflammatory medicine and it works ok, but there I have a sense of my heart being swollen.
Chinese doctors are hopeless.
