... and I mistakenly thought you were trying to promote its services, so callous of me!
BTW I'm not a KL resident and don't pay KL prices; and was responding to the overcharges by general practitioners in off the street clinics on sore throats, bed bug bites, ear infections, fever and whatnot; quality of care at the clinics is just as satisfactory as those specialist hospitals - as mentioned in #1 by ibudewi.
I'm not trying to promote anything, just trying to help other travellers who might be in my unfortunate position of needing hospital treatment while abroad.
I am sick of all the insinuation that you are seeing a general pratitioner. Dr Chong Wei Min MRCP ( Lond ) MACP ( US ) MRCPCH ( Paediatric Cardiology ) Lond, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine ( Eire ) , Cardiology Fellowship ( Harvard ), Residency in Internal Medicine ( Mount Sinai ), Professor of Medicine , head of department of cardiology, Medical advisory council member for Drugs and therapeautics and Infectious disease and past consultant at the Royal postgraduate medical school who is also a Chevening scholar, Diploma in Cardiology ( London University ), Diploma of Internal Medicine ( London University ) is not a general practitioner and the author of MRCP II MADE EASY, Survival kit for MRCP II, Cardiology , A Socratic Approach, Survival kit for MRCP I, Survival kit in Cardiology for MRCP II and visiting professors in many major Ivy league hospitals is charged 100 RM for initial consultation, performs angioplasty , pacemaker implants and lectures regularly to specialists abroad and malaysia on a regular basis. On this basis, dont take his charity work at Oorloff clinic or his mild mannered kindness for weakness. You are being treated by one of the most brilliant physicians who have trained hundred of specialists internationally. Dont judge a book by its cover. MRCP II MADE EASY is rated 7 under MRCP search in Amazon Com, so please dont magnify your ignorance.
He is also the Physician for UTOPIA ( which is HIV positive people which he does for free ), a Royal cardiologist to the Sultan of Johor, operated on the chief police officer of Melaka and Penang, many prominent politicians both in Malaysia and abroad, the deputy special branch police of Malaysia and has many people who travel to Malaysia from all over the planet to consult and treat him. His main strength is his diagnostic acumen and his skills in treatment. Please stop this character assasination as you are all very foolish. When Dato De Souza was pronounced to have cancer of the lung and this was established by both the specialists , the chest physician and the haematologist and was sent back to die from Gleaneagles hospital, he was asked for a second opinion, he cured Dato De Souza, the prominent Amway Diamond member and a respected member of the dental council. There are many more VIPS whom he has treated , so dont be so bigoted and dont think that you are dealing with a mediocre GP. The only reason , he came back from England was to operate on his father with his team when the Malaysian specialist said it could not be done. So he is not only out of your league but show some appreciation.
He cured Dato De Souza of the Pneumonia despite the concurrent diagnosis of a Chest physician and a so called specialist haematologist from Gleneagles. Ponder about this before you devalue the intellect of this Physician who was a specialist at the age of 25
Not only that , WM Chong MD aka Dr Chong Wei Min had the principle and the guts to resign with his wife who is a Chest physician from Columbia Asia Hospital in protest of the killing of a patient with Tracium by Dr Neoh, the Orthopaedic surgeon. He was then the head of the department of medicine of Columbia Asia hospital and their senior resident Interntional Cardiologist Physician and the medical advisory chairman for Drugs and therapeautics as well as the Chairman for Infectious disease at that time. Dr Neoh claimed that he was possesed by a demon and injected the poison because of that. He also claimed that the computer system was faulty and may have cause the error. He declared that the computer system named CARE 21 be suspended from use. This is a man with principle who cares for his patients and not the mediocre general practitioner you seem to believe because of bitter jealousy and mediocrity in Malaysia. He has also fought for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C surgeons and interventional radiologists and cardiologist to be barred from operating as he cares. So please, dont misjudge his good intentions. He may lower his price to even 10 RM because he thinks that the foreigner cant pay.
wendygold = a person who cares to register into a travellers' forum and then talk nonsense.
BTW, who cares and bother to read your rant? Not me. I open this post because it was on my 'recent threads".
Run along now, and spend more time on your lessons given by your teacher. Yeah, yeah, it is the 1st day of your 1-week school break...
Yesterday I went to Dr Oorloff & Partners Klink. I would recommend this doctors clinic. I am Australian, and whilst the actual clinic is a little messier than the clinics I am used to, everything was clean and the equipment sterilised. My husband has been today as well as we both had chest and sinus infections. We saw a youngish (maybe in her thirties) female Doctor who was very pleasant and has very good English. Before asking to see the doctor, I asked the cost, which was RM35.
During the consultation the Dr recommended that I have antibiotics (obviously) and gave me the option of a antibiotic IV drip with follow up antibiotics which would make me feel better straight away (for RM280 total, including consultation fee), or just the antibiotics which would take 24 - 48 hours to begin to work (RM150 including consultation fee). At first I was shocked and said it was too expensive, so she said she could write a prescription for me to take to the pharmacy. She was just as happy for this option. After leaving the clinic, I discussed with my husband would said to just get the drip as he was sick of listening to me cough (and to be fair I was sick of it too, excuse the pun). I went back and they set me up with the drip and an hourish later I felt great. The coughing had eased, and the phlegm (sorry) was thinner and less already.
Initially I had paid the RM35, and when it was payment time, I was only required to pay the top up to RM280. Whilst some might say I didn't need the IV, it made me feel so much better straight away.
For me to visit our Dr at home it is A$72 for a normal consultation, so really the RM280 was not much more (approx A$87 with current exchange rate at time of post).
I have since been to the pharmacist to ask for the price of the antibiotics, and one of them was RM88 alone. I left with three types of tablet antibiotics, 1 tablet for phlegm, and cough syrup.
My husband has been today for the same treatment and feels so much better as well. He had also slipped and grazed his inner forearm (not painful, but it did break the skin), which the Dr notice and asked about his tetanus shots. Neither of us had had them recently and so she told my husband he needed one and recommended I had one as well. For both of the shots it was RM50, and last 5 years.
Whilst this may not be the norm in Australia (the IV drip), I know they do give IV antibiotics in Japan at international clinics, as a friend of mine had this recently (they are citizens of Japan). All in all, I would definitely recommend this clinic. I will be going back if needed as we are in KL for 4 months.....and if you ask for a receipt you should be able to claim it on your travel insurance when you get home anyway. Better than ruining a holiday!