General information regarding local HK doctors

[lennox08]

You seem to think the NHS is perfect. Read this and learn: Thousands of NHS patients suffer avoidable medical errors, says Healthcare Commission - Telegraph

please don't assume I think NHS is perfect. no one anywhere in the world is perfect. we are all human. All I am saying is that the eye and maxiofacial sugeons in UK are in a different league. And I am certain other fields of surgery too. I wouldn't resemble a normal person if I left it to HKG surgeons; my face would be significantly asymmetrical and eye severely squint; self esteem non existent. operations considered very "complicated" by HKG surgeons
.unfortunately I did add to the workload of the NHS, but it was required NHS repairs private surgery blunders | Mail Online

[Tioga]

Responses and treatments received by GPs and dentist here, and friends who have had surgery by HK surgeons,I do agree Drs or surgeons in HKG are definitely inferior in expertise to those in UK.
Pearl report on tvb pearl on 30 jan 12,
Man misdiagnosed when he had a lymphoma in lung area, had half his lung removed as a result and life ruined,
A lady goes to see dr as abnormal lump in neck area, the dr said it was nothing, until it developed to an advanced stage 4 cancer.

[Watercooler]

Responses and treatments received by GPs and dentist here, and friends who have had surgery by HK surgeons,I do agree Drs or surgeons in HKG are definitely inferior in expertise to those in UK.
Pearl report on tvb pearl on 30 jan 12,
Man misdiagnosed when he had a lymphoma in lung area, had half his lung removed as a result and life ruined,
A lady goes to see dr as abnormal lump in neck area, the dr said it was nothing, until it developed to an advanced stage 4 cancer.

It's funny people automatically assume HK doctors are inferior based on one or two cases of misdiagnosis. I hate to break this to you, but the same thing happens in the UK, Canada, US or Australia. Isolated experience by one or two posters should not be generalized to assume ALL doctors are like that. If someone were to suffer from a misdiagnosis in the UK or US, then will they be correct to conclude UK or US doctors are inferior?!

Use logic before you make outlandish claims unsupported by statistics. Claiming HK doctors are inferior without statistics is patently false and ill-conceived, if not totally foolish.

[MCDC]

I agree with watercooler. Mishaps and wrong diagnoses happen all the time in all countries. It happens all the time in the US but it's a bit more hush hush if the doctor/hospital/clinic and their lawyers have any say in it. Patients file lawsuits over things like this, insurance companies pay loads of money to the patient who is then forced to sign non disclosure agreements so it doesn't end up being a huge media uproar.
That being said, I do worry about the care offered to patents in the government hospitals. I am a chiropractor so a doctor in my own respect (I really do not care to argue this point. For those who feel chiropractors are not doctors that is your opinion and you are more than free to have that opinion.) and have patients come in complaining of various problems and telling me of the care they receive in the govt hospitals. I saw a patient who I suspect has rheumatoid arthritis and I would like her to get tested but govt doctors refuse to do the test saying it is not necessary and that the patient simply has osteoarthritis. I feel this is irresponsible because a patient with RA will be on vastly different medications than a patient with OA which can prevent (much) further damage and disability.
I have other reports of govt doctors prescribing high doses of what is the equivalent to the US Tylenol/acetaminophen to a patient who I find out has severe liver damage. A patient with severe liver damage should not be given this medication, especially not in high doses. These are only a sample of some of the things I have heard from patients and coworkers about govt hospitals. Ultimately it sounds like it comes down to insufficient funding, overworked doctors, some patients coming in for every simple ache and pain they have and clogging up the healthcare system, etc. But...
No matter where you are in the world you will be able to find horror stories about doctors of all fields. Despite HK having a fair share of those horror stories, I have to believe that there are many more perfectly capable doctors for every incapable one.