Overall Medical Treatments {OverAll Impressions}

My experience with several different doctors has been that no matter the problem, the doctor pulls out his pad and writes prescriptions.  S/he doesn't look at the site of the injury and won't touch or prod to judge level of pain.  They write scripts and send you for lab tests.

I needed anesthesia injections and so a numbing cream was put on the site for 15 minutes before hand.  Good.  Then the doctor came back and made the injections NOWHERE NEAR where he had applied the topical anesthetic!  The pain was freakin' EXCRUTIATING and the injection sites hurt for weeks.  I think he injected into a bone.  Seriously.

I know expats who take annual leave time and go home to have any medical issues addressed.  After my last experience, I am thinking this is a good idea.

As a nurse who, up until recently, used to work in a private hospital, I totally agree with most of the stuff written on here. Most hospitals pile on the lab works just for the extra cash and the majority of doctors don't even care that, half the time, they're under-assessing and over-medicating their clients.

Even as a beneficiary of the kind of healthcare provided by a large government hospital, I also have my gripes. Unless I'm seeing a specialist, I get shuffled around from doctor to doctor every visit who won't even glance at my medical history and assume that every single relevant data about my condition was taken during the first examination. During follow-ups, they ask a couple of questions, refill my medication, and tell me that another physician will see me after three months. The lack of continuity of care decreases its overall quality.

On the bright side, at least they allow me to refuse irrelevant labs. That and the meds are free. Also, where I get free healthcare, if you have a complicated health condition, you're referred to a specialist. All the specialists I've met conduct thorough physical exam and history taking and I still get to see them every follow up. I like visiting my specialists cuz it's a relief to know I'm visiting a doctor who knows me as a person and not just a statistic or another medical case.

TheLegendLeads wrote:

a) The doctors don't listen to the patients in details (due to whatever reasons). Usually, you're not done with what you want to say and the physician starts writing the prescription.

So true...Had a visit to a doctor (my first) and coming from a different doctor and hospital, i was just telling him of my previous check ups which somehow concerns of my current complaints, but the doctor just glance and seemingly bored and not interested, and in fact said: "Yeah, but I am not seeing that in the records, right?" (of course, i do not have records to their hospital, since it's my first visit!)...
He just totally ignored my case...and even without touching me - gives tons of prescription - which i did not take

Popolocroix wrote:

and even without touching me - gives tons of prescription - which i did not take

YES!  For me, I actually had a hairline fracture but the doctor wasn't interested in even seeing my foot, no less actually touching it!  She just asked me what was wrong and wrote prescritions for anti-inflamatory meds when I told her it hurt a lot and was swollen.  JEEZE!