medical advice for person living in China

Hiya. Can anyone recommend a good doctor for me to see in Hong Kong? I live in the P.R. of China, but I’ll be in HK for a couple of days this weekend, and I need to see a doctor about an eye infection that’s been lingering for quite awhile. I checked google but found nothing useful there.

Also, anyone know how much a standard doctor’s visit might cost in HK dollars?

Also, any doctors out there, or other medical types: Is it normal for an eye infection not to go away by itself? I thought it would go away, but it hasn’t after several months. Symptoms are blood-shot eyes and slightly blurred vision. Makes me look like a zombie, but I alreaady stick out like a sore thumb, and it doesn’t really hurt, so I keep putting off seeing a doctor. I’ve probably scarred my eyes for life or something, so now I wanna get them looked at.

Any insight would be much appreciated!

I work for a medical organization in the United States, and we have a network of hospitals around the world that are affilaited with us. To become affiliated with our organization, a hospital has to meet our criteria … they’ve got to be good, efficient, and effective at treating patients.

In Hong Kong, we have accredited the Queen Mary Hospital (University of Hong Kong). So I would suggest that this hospital is a good place to try. There are doctors there who practice Western medicine.

But the big question for you is if the hospital has a clinic that will treat a patient such as yourself. And that is someting I don’t know.

Good luck. I remember my father, on a trip to China about 6 years ago, went to a Chinese hospital in Beijing when he developed a severe throat infection.

To examine him, the Chinese doctor used a tongue depressor that he pulled out of his desk drawer – clearly this stick of wood was not only unsterile, but was probably terribly contaminated with the germs from the dozens of other patients who had previously come in contact with it.

The doctor indicated to my father to stick his tongue out, whereapon the doctor placed a cloth strip over his tongue, pulled it tight around my father’s chin, and proceeded to stick that tongue depressor – in my father’s words – so far down his throat that my father thought he was going to collect a stomache sample.

The cloth over my father’s tongue that pinned it to his chin was obviously meant to keep my father from wretching/gagging/screaming.

Anyway, the ultimate diagnosis was unclear (due to language issues) but the doctor prescribed some traditional Chinese herbal medicine which my father reluctantly took. He had a slow recovery, but he did get better.

When he returned to the States, he showed some of his leftover pills to one of his Chinese students (my father was a prof with many foreign students) who told him that the “active” ingedient in the medicine was deer semen!

The Prince’s Building in HK has a lot of doctors and specialists. I used to visit some of them but that was a few years ago. You could try there.

The Adventist Hospital on Hong Kong Island has some real good doctors (others were average).

Sorry i can’t be of more help

I had great success with the Adventist Hospital in Hong Kong. The doctors were very well trained, kind and the hospital is modern and clean. I CANNOT say the same for the Chinese hospital I was taken to first. AIiiiiiiiii…