Pitfalls of medical service

I really hate the medical service standard here. To think that we pay so much taxes each year, we do expect a certain level of healthcare standard from this wealthy country. Earlier today I accompanied W to a government hospital because this poor guy was diagnosed with Bronchitis for over a week and was referred by the GP to go for X-ray. After waited for over an hour, the bitch (aka the incompetent doctor) from A&E simply disregarded the references from the GP and even questioned our purpose of visiting A&E as if we were wasting her time to attend to more important cases (which btw there were no serious cases around us). Even after the X-ray, the bitch didn’t even bothered to explain W’s worsen condition and worse still, she prescribed all sort of irrelevant medicine for symptoms which W does not even has.

This is definitely not the first time I heard about the pitfalls within healthcare system here – for examples doctors denying to treat emergency patients when they do not pay and pregnant woman has to book months in advance for a bed vacancy to deliver. Even when I wanted to book an appointment with a gynecologist for my check up I was told to wait till next month, otherwise I just have to take my own risk with other doctors. Gawd.

Is there simply a lack of medical resources or is there too much demand from this fast growing nation?

I definitely miss the accessible and affordable polyclinics in Singapore.