This would be a total lie, at best it’s an ignorant drivel spouted by non locals who lived somewhere for a few years and think they know it all.PNGMK wrote:I would not use that one as they almost killed a friend. Mt Elizabeth at Mt Elizabeth or GlenEagles if you want private but honestly KKH or NUH are the best. To put it frankly the shitty docs in this country go private, the good ones stay in NUH or SGH or KKH.
Escapedprisoner wrote:This would be a total lie, at best it’s an ignorant drivel spouted by non locals who lived somewhere for a few years and think they know it all.PNGMK wrote:I would not use that one as they almost killed a friend. Mt Elizabeth at Mt Elizabeth or GlenEagles if you want private but honestly KKH or NUH are the best. To put it frankly the shitty docs in this country go private, the good ones stay in NUH or SGH or KKH.
Most of the doctors in our public hospitals are new and green.
To be able to practice as a specialist you need to go to a public hospital first for your residency and spend some years there most certainly as intern then resident.
Singapore’s private hospitals are for doctors who are already specialists.
That’s why you get all the freshies in public hospitals. Then they move to the private sector later.
There are senior docs in the public hospitals and they are generally no more skilled than the majority of their compatriots who leave for private practice for better working conditions.
The fact that you say ”They cannot pass scrutiny in the public system but they seem to be able to escape scrutiny and duck malpractice lawsuits in the private system” shows that you don’t know anything of how SG works yet you brag about living in SG since the 90s? Try to claim you know SG systems better than locals?! Lol.PNGMK wrote: To be more specific (and trying not to be sued) - there are specialists in the private system who would - in a litigious society - have been sued out of practice in my purely personal opinion based on friends dreadful experiences. They cannot pass scrutiny in the public system but they seem to be able to escape scrutiny and duck malpractice lawsuits in the private system.
Where should AussieMama have her baby? Yeah she'll be ok in GE or Mt E almost certainly, unless something goes really wrong and then she'll wish she was in KKH. Wishing her well.
I am aware of local top specialists who do volunteer duty once in two weeks or so in public hospitals. They do so out of altruism and they are also a tiny fraction of the top private specialists thanks for bolstering my original point. That all doctors in Sg with accrued experience transit to private. So you can try to save money and go to a public hospital and secretly hope and pray that you get attended to by one of the charity docs doing charity work once a month or whatever.sundaymorningstaple wrote:You forgot to mention that those same specialists who maintain their offices in the private hospitals also do rounds one or two days a week in the public hospitals. I know this for fact as when my wife had her heart attack about 8 years ago, she was attended to by the son of the most famous Father & Son Cardiologist teams in Singapore (based at Mt. Elizabeth). He also attended to her in SGH for two stents in later years. In the 1980's, if you were a pregnant female and had problems (regardless of a private or public hospital), you would be shipped over to the old KK hospital. My first child was delivered at the old KK hospital by arguably, the most famous gynae in Singapore. Dr. S Shan Ratnam, who was also the pioneer of gender reassignment surgery in Asia (1974). (who passed away in 2001).
The reason they congregate at Mount E is because the hospital caters primarily to the Middle-Eastern and African Warlord traffic who can afford to pay rediculous rates. Not that they are any better, just maybe better connected.
Sorry your feelings were hurt that I said the renowned private doctor that attended to u on their volunteer public service duty once a month made you a “charity case”. You yourself said that famous surgeon was in private practice and was helping out in no more than 10% of his billing hours in the public hospital doing his charity work his main job is his private practice. You received a tip off and you contacted him. We got the story.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Sorry to piss on your parade, but I certainly wasn't a charity case, and in the case of both my 1st born's birth and my wife's cardiologist, they were contacted by us via recommendation of another of their patients. They also had no problems that we opted for public hospitals. Apparently a lot of the patients opt for the public hospitals as the vast majority of "specialists" with upmarket addresses almost always remember where they came from. They also know it is silly to spend a fortune for a 5* hospital room when a 3* has all the same amenities and the specialist will come just like they would at the private hospital. But by having their clinics there allows them to charge higher prices due to the surroundings. Doesn't make you a better doctor though, just more mercenary in a lot of cases.
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