Best Posts in Thread: FYI Ace Doctors Hospital

They explained the difference by saying, "sorry sir, we are a very new hospital". I would not like to say what the surgery was, we are still getting medical treatments and service there and I would rather they didn't identify me. I will say this, from start to end the surgery took just over 30 minutes. We had to provide a "watcher" to be in the room 24/7 (I guess they don't have enough nurses to be able to monitor their patients). The surgery was scheduled for 9:00Am, and at midnight the night before the surgery a nurse came to the patient room and handed the watcher a list of drugs needed for the surgery and explained to her that the family is responsible for providing these drugs to the doctor before the surgery. They did that at midnight the night before the surgery. It's really a shame because both Ace and Polymedic are nice shiny new hospitals, and you would think boy we are lucky to have nice new hospitals here available to us ... but they are both terrible. I would recommend Silliman miles above either one of them, and PhilHealth is utterly worthless.

 

a Walletectomy

 

On the topic of hospital and PhilHealth ... a relative just had a surgery performed at the new Polymedic hospital. Before the surgery they were given an estimate of an approximate cost for the surgery of about 100,000 peso. Final bill: 650,000 peso. And, of that amount, their PhilHealth insurance paid 13,000 peso.

 

You could write a book on how threads twist and turn to become off topic - and I am as guilty as anyone else, possibly more so. But it is your right as a mod here to put them back on course again.

 

not sure but they have a permanent "phil health" sign affixed to the wall outside above the entrace to the ER

 

I have experience, direct and indirect, of two - and put Holy Child way above Silliman. The room was certainly better at HC but my choice is also based on the actual doctors - one was very good (his anesthesiologist was not) and one was VERY bad (should have retired years ago). Admission into HC was very slow - arrived about 9 am and went to the room about 5 pm! From what I have read on the Forum recently, it is very difficult to choose from the 4 private hospitals when none is very good.

 

Hmmm. This is a challenge.

A patient gets to know the reputation of doctors, chooses the one that they think is the best and then goes to the hospital where that doctor practices.

We collect a lot of information on this forum about doctors in Dumaguete.

It is true that when you are being wheeled into an emergency room after a gruesome accident you want it to be a hospital where the ER doctors have a lot of experience.

On the other hand going to Cebu Doctors Hospital for a planned operation is like playing roulette. We do not have the information to choose a doctor there.

How does one here in Dumaguete choose a doctor in Cebu?

 

Maybe he needs to look up the definition of "illiterate", because if we are illiterate if we don't know military time (which I do), he wouldn't need to write that, because the illiterate won't be able to read what he wrote. I know nobody here is illiterate, but what I just wrote sure made ME dizzy!!