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Today News Special: Doctors from China working at IMH, SGH

GeylangCheongster

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Na li tong?


http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110416-0000309/Doctors-being-recruited-from-China

Doctors being recruited from China
by Ng Jing Yng 04:46 AM Apr 16, 2011

SINGAPORE - The first six arrived last month. Come August, there will be another 15.

The entry of these medical officers from China marks the success of the Ministry of Health's recent recruitment drives in the country to supplement the pool of doctors here, an MOH spokesperson told MediaCorp.

The first batch of six medical officers, who have been placed in various public hospitals such as the Singapore General Hospital, come from a list of eight accredited Chinese universities. As medical officers here, they qualify as doctors and will be trained further, for instance, in the specialist track or as a family physicians.

China is now a source for doctors, after a gradual expansion of the list of accredited medical schools, which now numbers 160. Other countries with a number of newly-recognised universities include Taiwan and Japan.

Last year, the authorities were "quite successful" in recruiting some 300 foreign graduates, largely from the United Kingdom and Australia, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan told MediaCorp.

Referring to the most recent arrivals, he said: "There are top medical schools, too, in China and we're starting to tap this source to supplement our pool."

Overall, doctors from overseas comprised 26 per cent of the 8,820 doctors here at the end of last year, with the majority from Malaysia and India.

The MOH's spokesperson said that the number of locally-trained medical professionals has been increasing but "this will take time ... we also recruit from overseas to cope with the projected increase in healthcare needs of an ageing population".

She added that the Singapore Medical Council conducts "stringent checks, including source verification", for every application for medical registration.

Even before last month, other pioneers from China have struck out on their own to practise in Singapore.

Dr Guo Song, 51, for instance, has been at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since May 2004. There have been challenges, admitted the consultant at IMH's addiction medicine department, and the Beijing native is still working to improve his English language skills and to understand the local working culture.

But he can speak easily in Mandarin with older patients and Mr Khaw agrees this "will be good for our patients".

While not all Singaporeans speak Mandarin, the minister believes there are "more upsides than downsides". He said: "(Chinese doctors) are very bright and in time will be able to adjust to the pace and culture here."

There are programmes to assimilate foreign staff, for instance, at Jurong Health Services, which oversees Alexandra Hospital and the coming Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. The healthcare group's chief executive, Foo Hee Jug, said doctors also work with a team who can assist in any communication issues.

Patients whom MediaCorp spoke to agreed that Chinese doctors would be useful due to the large Mandarin-speaking population here, as long as the doctors were competent.

Those who cannot speak Mandarin said they would rely on the translators. "Even though we all communicate at some level of English, it might be in a different accent, and it'll be hard to understand word for word," said Mr Anathan Perithaby, 50, who visits Tan Tock Seng Hospital for monthly check-ups.
 

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Doctors and other professionals are welcomed but not any other foreign tom, dick and harry who are easily passed by MOM ......

Good God ..... as it is now already millions of lousy and dirty FTs ...... after election, another 1.5 million more to come ..... siggghhhh ....
 

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Got assigned Ah Neh doctor. She seems eager to score points and recommended eye surgery. Ask her left and right questions and she gave me inconsistent explanations. At least she is still a medical professional. Not so sure about Ah Tiongs docs. Go to Kunming and they are advertising medical schools on TV. Batch of medical students I saw in their hospital are junior college age. Chinamen concept of western medicine is TCM doctors using western drugs. X-ray machines looks old Soviet era. They should have lots of experience treating radiation sickness. Go to their pharmacy and you have a hard time asking for panadols. Their idea of medicines is one size fits all. Get the Yunnan Baiyao they said, it cures everything from headaches to aids. Dun know why the drip is so important in their line of treatment, every clinic have a few beds behind patients on drip.

Know your patient rights. If you think you are being examined by a quack ask to change another doctor on your next visit. They'll oblige but you may wait longer.
 

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Better pay these China doctors top dollars... based on the PAP logic, if you don't pay them well, they might give you rat drugs. So they would rather restrict intake of local students in Medicine and get China doctors to treat you.. hmmm
 

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Ah neh doctors = No idea what is going on and hey will diagnose you according to their fancy and will recommend that you operate on your appendix when you have food poisoning.

Ah Tiong doctor = Have every detail at hand and can't read the information. Claim to give you something manufactured by GSK but will take something made in the back street of Hunan & shaft it into your body and later you will find out that it is cancer causing just so that he can substantiate his diagnose of you having cancer when you didn't!

So sinkies! Which is worst, PAP that tell you you are a invalid and must be led by them or this FT doctors?
 

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wahaha... thia one is true, i coughed for 3 weeks in a roll also dare not go see the doctor there as i was told the first thing they will do is put you on drip. so i went pharmacy to get medicine, took already, noticed there is blood in my flam...:mad:

Dun know why the drip is so important in their line of treatment, every clinic have a few beds behind patients on drip.
 

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PRC old news. We had been getting from Mynmar and Sri Lanka long ago. Third world doctors, 1st world charges. The difference goes into Cow's pocket. Hence the term Cash Cow
 

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>Dr Guo Song, 51, for instance, has been at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since May 2004. There have been challenges, admitted the consultant at IMH's addiction medicine department, and the Beijing native is still working to improve his English language skills and to understand the local working culture.>

Dr Got Song..already 51...must be old is GOld, no wonder he is placed in IMH, either he has specialty in getting those, with 'no body at home" up there to see the light or he is there due to the fact that 'seow lan' don't understand you, even if Dr.Got Song, spoke fluent Yiddish!., never mind engrish or Chinese or....
 

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Dr Guo Song, 51, for instance, has been at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since May 2004. There have been challenges, admitted the consultant at IMH's addiction medicine department, and the Beijing native is still working to improve his English language skills and to understand the local working culture.
no wonder, those complain abt him will not be taken seriously.:eek:
 

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There are some good doctors in China but they are not allowed to leave the country, just like their top sportsmen.

My wife had a serious spine problem which the hospitals here could not cure after taking numerous tests and x-rays. In the end only give her pain killers and go for physio. We went to Beijing Hospital and the doc found the root cause and cured her just by looking at her x-ray and a simple blood test. Wonder why the local docs could not detect it when I later found that its quite a common medical condition in Singapore.

Good doctors will not practice out of China because the money is too good in China. Medicine salesmen will approach the docs to sell their medicines and these medicines will be 'tag' to these docs, who will get rebates every time the hospital orders the medicine. The meds are marked up by as much as a few hundred times due to this long 'supply chain'. So its only in their interest to prescribe as much medicines as possible. There are no GP clinics in China so you can only go to hospitals, whose docs will prescribe tons of Chinese and western medicines all in original boxes (unlike those loose ones given by the GPs here). So what do you do with those leftover meds? Just sell it to the vendors outside the hospital or give them a call (from the numbers in the ads pasted all around the hospitals). The meds will then get recycled to hospitals, pharmacies or sold at a discounted price directly to patients.
 
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Doctors and other professionals are welcomed but not any other foreign tom, dick and harry who are easily passed by MOM ......

Good God ..... as it is now already millions of lousy and dirty FTs ...... after election, another 1.5 million more to come ..... siggghhhh ....

WP's Chen Show Mao had applied to study medicine at the National University of Singapore, but was rejected back in 1979.
And he was the top A-level student of the 1979 cohort in Singapore, which included Cabinet ministers Vivian Balakrishnan and Lui Tuck Yew.
Now MOH wants to recruit from China? :rolleyes:
 
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