Gleneagles needs to work on their customer care and they've hired a lot of doctors without much practical experience. Been there twice and they screwed up both times. First time I went there because I could get a quick referral to physio and they screwed up the note. AIA and them had to argue for a few weeks, with me in the middle. Second time was a health check up. Different Doctor asked me to bring my health check up reports and to a 3rd party doctor and have the 3rd party doctor refer me to get some tests done but refused to give me the referral herself. Wtf? I asked her several times for her to just write the referral but she admitted that she didn't want to give me the referral since she was not confident on whether my results would produce anything. Obviously I was pissed and AIA was not happy.
I like Sanatorium because the fee is not more expensive than Central clinics (300 I think) and the GPs are pretty fast and good. Haven't had good experience with their specialists as I've been misdiagnosed by their supposed top specialists.
RTHK says QM is over 100%, at least one ward is worse than that, I went to visit a friend in QMH a few weeks ago, the ward was overflowing, they had 6 or 7 extra patients in the ward corridor, it was stuffed full
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/componen...3-20181106.htm
I guess "urgent care" means something different in the US from UK- it's not like an emergency room, just a bunch of GPs you can pop into any time without being a patient or without an appointment.
So if you have strep throat, sprain, minor burn, etc. Something that needs treatment right away but is not emergency-room level of care.
In the US, pretty much no GPs in the middle of the night unless you are a patient of some practice and have a doctor on call.
This is all new to me and, like I said earlier, seems too good to be true.
Of course, with being able to get so much medication without a prescription in HK, like antibiotics, kind of cuts down the need to go to a doctor for a minor infection or such. Still, nice to know there are lots of options...
You didn't consider a broken arm to be urgent- someone has a very high pain threshold?Original Post Deleted
Being on Kowloon side, I've used St Teresa's on Prince Edward Road before and they have a Starbucks inside so eat shit you Island snobs with your Pacific coffees!
Apart from that, same deal. 24 hour service, i was there one Sunday morning getting fixed up, and they also took my companies health insurance card so I didn't pay a cent. I was quite surprised actually because my insurance company is an obscure French company called "Henner" which is not well known in Asia and I was fairly sure I would have to pay first and claim back later. But very happy didn't have to go through all that hassle.