Appreciate the Singapore Health Service

[Kooky]

I really miss my Doctor Lee.

I've tried one GP and want to try another; she's been recommended to me as somebody who doesn't just dish out meds - unlike the first who, on meeting me twice, offered me counselling and anti-depressants when all I went for was blood test results and a prescription for HRT.

She's a GP. She has a month-plus waiting list!!! She's the second one I've rung that has this. WTF do you do if you are ill?

I thought it was bad when my blood tests took a full week to return.

(Oh and she charges S$400 an hour.)

[azzam]

Have you got time to book an appt with Dr Lee when you're in Sing?
If you explain your predicament, he may even see you on a Sunday - and from there you could do internet consultations maybe?

[Kooky]

I've thought about it, az. I will be in Sg before my appt with her. But I also want to see Dr Ang and I don't want to spend most of a day doing stuff like that, eating into my valuable shopping and eating time.

Might, though...

[Jedi]

Big Bear medical centre was always good for me. They do Bulk Billing so the charges were pretty much always covered by Medicare. Couldn't be bothered to have a regular GP.

[azzam]

I've thought about it, az. I will be in Sg before my appt with her. But I also want to see Dr Ang and I don't want to spend most of a day doing stuff like that, eating into my valuable shopping and eating time.

Might, though...

Book yourselves an extra day in Singapore?

[Kooky]

You're not the first person to point out I'm a bit slow - Neo may have to be back at work on the Monday, but I don't.

Going to find out if and how much to change my flight - didn't get a flexible ticket.

[baloo]

crackers was recommended a very good doctor in North Sydney. I forget her name but I may have passed the details onto Tas or daff. Don't remember. Dr Anne Something I think

[Kooky]

Big Bear medical centre was always good for me. They do Bulk Billing so the charges were pretty much always covered by Medicare. Couldn't be bothered to have a regular GP.

Is that a bit like a polyclinic, Jedi? Drop in? I may have to find a GP who has a special interest in what I have (as the recommended one is - people fly in from other parts to see her, apparently) and use another for ad hoc/minor stuff.

I went to the first GP because I wanted some non-standard meds which the compounding chemist I found says she prescribes, but she wouldn't give them to me anyway.

BTW we don't qualify for Medicare; we pay a considerable sum for private insurance that so far seems a total rip-off.

baloo - would appreciate details so I can check if she prescribes compounded meds, thanks. I have found another one but they're at Asquith or whatever it's called.

[BFG]

crackers was recommended a very good doctor in North Sydney. I forget her name but I may have passed the details onto Tas or daff. Don't remember. Dr Anne Something I think

Summers?

[baloo]

Found it Kooks

Dr Amanda McBride

http://www.aussieweb.com.au/details.aspx?id=1661593

[Tas]

she isn't taking any new patients!!! and I think has gone part time, despite the recommendation. then the other doctor at same clinic I tried to get after a week of completely being booked out cancelled my appointment due to some 'family crisis' on the friday of a long weekend I gave up and haven't been to doctors in 2.5 years and the one open around the corner is awful but I need to pop in...

[Lichtgestalt]

Maybe it's time to open a forum "ask the board doctor..."

[Kooky]

Thanks anyway, baloo.

[Jedi]

Is that a bit like a polyclinic, Jedi? Drop in?

Yep just drop in unannounced, register at the front desk and wait for your turn to see a GP. The doctors there were pretty good and it worked out quite cheap for me to go there. Not sure how it would work in your case since you don't have medicare.

[Kooky]

Cheers, will look into it.

[daffodil]

Been to a drop-in place in the City - Hunter Medical Centre (?) without an appointment recently. The Dr I saw had clearly been to the Qantas customer service training school - clueless, rude and a right old cow.

However, I did see that a couple of Dr's there were from a practise I used to visit in The Strand Arcade years ago and recall Dr Raymond Choy as being ok.

Drop in centres are just that in my opinion - luck of the draw unless you request a specific GP.

Edit : When I was living in Mosman I went to the Avenue Road Med practise - saw Dr Janet Kitchener-Smith (v good) and Dr Bambi (I kid you not) Marcus (ok). Guess it dependa on their speciality, right?

[cromasaig]

crackers was recommended a very good doctor in North Sydney. I forget her name but I may have passed the details onto Tas or daff. Don't remember. Dr Anne Something I think

Summers?

Kinsey?

[Tas]

that reminds me, friend of mine is going to a british doctor in Mosman (also specialist travel doctor) who she likes quite a bit, knows all the British terms for her drugs, will find out the details and pass on. don't think has the same waiting list problems.