Patients

Patients can be a real pain in the ass. The health care system in Hong Kong is already in a pretty bad state but these people really know how to abuse the system. The other night a pregnant woman came in because she had uterine contractions and was worried that she was about to give birth. Anyway, she had her ante-natal checkup in QMH, and she wanted to give birth QMH. She came to our unit to have a check-up in the middle of the night to see if she was about to go into labour and if she was, she would go to QMH. She even ask us to call an ambulance for her to transfer her there. She should have went straight to QMH instead of coming to us. She didn’t even want to stay here and asked to be discharge right after she was admitted. She wasted our time admitting her, wasted resources in PYNEH when she should have went straight to QMH. If she want to see a doctor, she could have gone see a private doctor instead of wasting taxpayer’s money.

I had another lady admitted because of suspected ectopic pregnancy. She had a bit of vaginal bleeding and her pregnancy test was positive. Ultrasound didn’t see an intra-uterine pregnancy, so ectopic pregnancy was not ruled out. 10 minutes after admission, she requested discharge because she did not have any abdominal pain. She didn’t want to want to stay overnight to let us observe her symptoms. Why see a doctor when you’re not going let doctors do their job? OG doctors are nice. They discharge their patients. If it was me, they wouldn’t be simply discharged, I would make sure the were discharged against medical advice. What happens if they die in the middle of their way home? Their family would come back and blame us. Why did we let them go?

Every night at least 1 or 2 of these patients are admitted. They are wasting a lot of resources. Remember when you’re a patient, make sure you listen to what the doctors have to say and listen to them…

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