Here is a KL doctor recommendation

I was very satisfied with Doctor Oorloff. In preperation for my journey to SE Asia last January, I had contacted about 5 or 6 facilities in advance, asking various questions regarding vaccinations and malaria pills. While the prices were similar at all the KL facilities I contacted (variety of hospital and clinics) , Oorloff was the only one who took the time to answer all my questions thoroughly in his email responses. He and his staff were very pleasant, and I didn't feel ripped off whatsoever.

US$300 for this kind of treatment is insanely expensive for KL. I mean out-of-this-world ripoff insane.

I don't think I've ever spent more than RM100 for consultation plus prescriptions, often less.

LOL. I thought doctors are not allow to advertise and there are even regulations on how their clinics signboards should be. And here is Lea adding scare tactics to drive up 'sales'.

I know this is an old post, but am surprise that there is reply saying that US300 is NOT a total rip-off. Anything above 1000 ringgits would be surgery...

I was at this clinic earlier today for an ear infection. Dr Chong Wei Min attended to me, and after telling him about my ear ache, he took a swab and told me it's an infection (otitis media) and if leave untreated can cause deafness. But what shocked me, was he kept repeating he is a specialist and told me the treatment would cost RM390. I was shocked, even a visit to the twin towers medical wasn't that expensive to begin with. I then told him, i cannot afford such expensive treatment, and would gladly pay for the consultation fee. He said the minimum consultation fee i would need to pay is RM100, as he is a specialist, and can easily go up to RM180. I finally told him, I would pay for RM100 then. He reduced his treatment cost to RM300, then RM250, to a lower RM200, and finally RM150. When he negotiated the price, I should have left because doctors don't do that. I was quite angry because a normal consultation wouldn't cost more than RM50 (no meds given). In the end, he put me on antibiotic drip, took a scan of my heart (no idea why?), and gave me the print out. I made sure I paid with cash instead of credit card.

Perhaps, RM100 would be a more reasonable cost for that simple treatment. The facilities and condition of the clinic is quite bad in my opinion. I would never go back to this clinic anymore. It's such a ripoff. A visit to the hospital wouldn't even cost RM400.

An antibiotic drip? All you needed was a prescription for Erythromycin or Augmentin!!!!

The next doctor I went to, told me the antibiotic drip is not necessary and it may be one of their ways to make us pay more. I wouldn't recommend travelers to go to this clinic, and from what I see, the thread starter paid a huge sum for a normal clinic treatment. What a rip off.

For future reference - just got back from Gleneagles Hospital. Paid 150 RM for thorough (20-30 min) specialist consultation. Then for 2x/day, 5 day course of two IV antibiotics (total 15 injections) it cost around 900 RM (not including subsequent daily costs of injection, syringe, etc which is around 50 RM). Additionally paid 367 RM for an ultrasound. Medication was more expensive than I would have liked (675 RM of the cost was one antibiotic course; the rest was all cheap) but the hospital was recommended on TT and it appeared on the US embassy's list of suitable hospitals.

Sounds ridiculously overpriced by the likes of this thread though...? Quality of care was excellent, in any case.

And your point? Gleneagles is a specialist hospital in Ampang - one of the most affluence suburb in KL with rows of embassies, while this 3-yr old thread is on general practitioner...

#16, There was a deleted post I was referring to in my first paragraph in #12 on services offered in Glenagles, was it yours?

I was just trying to be helpful to other posters who may not be as familiar with KL's hospitals and pricing as you apparently are.