My turn to rant!!
OK - my turn to rant!!
Do NOT ever go to Zhong Yan clinic on the main hotel drag in Chang Ping in front of the Hui Mei hotel. Total rip-off scam and totally no ethics AT ALL.
My li'l friend and I was just walking on ZhongYan street when I recalled that she had told me previous night that she was experiencing some itching "down there." I'm pretty sure that it's just a very minor case of thrush - something quite common amongst gals during hot humid weather - and thus decided to just drop in that DEVIL CLINIC to get some OTC meds.
Well... no... the doctor insists that she needs to examine her first - pay RMB 30 (the start of the trap) - all along her/I telling her that we just want a course of medicine to take and definitely NO lousy drip as they're ALWAYS prescribing this in China.
OK - VERY perfunctory examination which only consists of questions and she told us to pay the cashier. RMB 245, which I thought, hmmm, kinda high but OK I guess. Wait in the room .... and then this nurse shows up with 4 drips - and which I then protested that this is NOT what we wanted. The supposed Doctor then tells me that the 245 also includes an actual examination of her down there - and so off my friend went by herself to the examination room.
About 10 minutes or so later - the nurse got me and told me to come right away to see something - and when I entered the room, there was my friend with her legs strapped up, an examination tool stuck up her nether region and blood oozing out from the top of her vagina. (she had NOT had any blood discharge, not even spotting prior to this)
The doctor and nurse then telling us that she needs an emergency operation to "cure her." Here all along my friend was just helplessly strapped up and her telling me later on that when they first "examined" her, that she felt little pain but that as it progressed, she then felt a sharp pain...which I am pretty sure was when the doctor actually just made a cut or wound to cause bleeding.
My friend was of course in a panic and I couldn't even think straight as I was not about to risk her life deciding wrongly. And after more horror proclamations about needing to stop the bleeding and to make sure that her condition was not gonna spread to her being unable to give birth in the future etc, I relented and agreed to the operation - Kaching - another RMB 1,000.
After the "operation" which lasted a whole of about 5 minutes, and after she recovered from the anaesthesia - it was off to the drip room for a drip, with instructions to come back the next day for a follow up exammination.
Next day - just a perfunctory examination and then another drip - RMB 245 again - and at the end of the drip - instructions that she must come back for AT LEAST another 5 days to make sure she completes the antibiotic course....at 245 a pop again.
So all in all its, gonna cost about RMB 3,000 - just coz of a bad decision on our part to visit this Quack of a clinic instead of the Chang Ping hospital where I and my friends had usually gone to and where we got good (albeit also a bit pricey - but nothing like this!) and PROPER treatment.
So - make sure you do NOT ever go to this rip off joint!! Its not only gonna make a big dent on your pocket - no matter how minor the ailment is - but they're actually gonna do you physical harm....just to rip you off.
WATCH OUT!!
SEAJ
Ps - During the course of the physical exam when my friend was alone with the doctor - out of the clear blue sky, she had actually asked my friend where her BF is from - to which she absent-mindedly just replied - and which I KNOW its this Thievin' doctor's need to double check to make sure that we were gonna be a good target for her scam.
[ Last edited by SEAJ at 27-7-2011 12:48 ] | |
