If we're not talking here about at least 90% Third World ethnics - then I'll eat my colostomy bag while walking backwards, naked in Sydney's Gay Oxford street.

A lot of you younger ones have these medical experiences yet to come - but arrive they surely will - and it will do you well to prepare yourselves to not be suckered into paying thousands of your hard-earned savings needlessly.

It was only a month ago that I once again found myself sitting with yet another Chinese specialist doctor - with this one explaining to me how it would be costing me $6000 to have cataracts removed at her surgery in about 4 year's time.

Not the slightest hint from her that there was the option of having this done for free at a university training hospital.

Deceitful, avaricious, exploitive, un-ethical, pickpocketing the ignorant and the gullible. All done in a nice warm tone of voice. Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly ...

And then today I see the ABC has finally caught up with this racket - and that's what it is - a dishonest racket being practiced by greedy medicos upon the most vulnerable in society.

link

One Chinese medical specialists wanted $5000 from me to remove kidney stones. He never mentioned it could be done for free. His whole attitude became huffy and hostile when I asked him for a Letter of Reference to have it done at a teaching hospital.

They did it for nothing. 12 months later there were more stones. And then the year after that there were more stones. All done for free. If in ignorance I had taken up this Chinese doctor's offer - I would have been out of pocket to the tune of $15,000 in just three years - with this bastard knowing I could have had it all done for free.

There should be jail-time for these mongrels. Or send them back to China or India - wherever.

Resolute wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 9:08am:


I've been stone-free for some years now - which is not at all typical. People I met in the Waiting Room told me they had been returning for years to have more stones shattered.

I still eat plenty of cheese, but only have milk in my coffee and tea.

It was only when I started drinking a lot of lime juice (as recommended) that the stones stopped developing.

(as recommended on the internet - not by any doctors ... )

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 9:23am:


To be fair, not everyone has access to the information that comes via the internet. I know people 60+ years of age that don't use computers. I know there may be other ways of gleaning information, but they're certainly at a disadvantage when it comes to medical scams or any scams for that matter.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 9:44am:


You would have had to be living under a rock for decades not to know that there is a public hospital system outside private medical practices.

Herbert knew of his options it seemed but he chose to test out the local Chinese female doctor first.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 9:44am:


A lot of elderly people of Anglo-Australian background would simply go along with what their doctor tells them - trusting that the doctor has their best interests at heart and wouldn't be so unethical as to rob them blind of their meagre savings when there's a free alternative.

This is something new that has been brought into this country via the auspices of 'multicultural diversity'. People of Anglo background don't expect these shenanigans from the august and erstwhile respectable profession that doctors to the sick.

We have a new breed here now who have brought with them their Third World mentality into the rich pickings of our medical profession.

Thankfully someone has blown the whistle on this nefarious practice by immigrant medicos who view their privileged position as an opportunity to virtually steal from those who are most vulnerable to their predations.

I remember Yugoslav workmates telling me how back in the Old Country they would make sure to take 'gifts' to the hospital where a family member would be staying for treatment of one sort or another.

A chicken for the doctor. Some pork for the nursing staff. Some Slivovitz for the matron, etc etc.

If you didn't 'gift' them something then your loved one would be virtually ignored until you DID bring something.

Multiculturalism is not all about recipes and Ethnic Dancing.

Aussie2 wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 10:08am:


You're avoiding the issue of doctors being morally and ethically culpable of deliberately and with aforethought not informing their patients of the options available to them.

Read the link again. It's not a one-off news story. It's something very wide-spread and in need of attention at the very highest levels of government.

I have never been sent to a specialist who doesn't have his own private practice. I don't even know if specialists exist who don't have their own surgery somewhere to milk the unsuspecting public of their cash-reserves.

My GP has sent me to a whole range of specialists for various treatments, and not one has been a Public Hospital Specialist - if such a person even exists.

It should be a very simple matter for Medical Specialists to tell their patients that a free public hospital system is available to them. But they don't do this - and it can be for only one reason ~ they prefer to have you believe their own expensive services is the only option to you.






 

cods wrote on May 26^th, 2015 at 9:56am:


Oh absolutely. Purely coincidental.

I even had a Chinese optometrist try to rip me off to buy a new pair of spectacle frames from him. He warned me he wouldn't provide me with new lenses unless I bought a new set of frames from him.

I sacked him.

That shocked me to the core. As someone from the Anglo-sphere you don't expect that sort of unethical arm-twisting to get you to make unnecessary payments to practitioners in the medical professions.

Multiculturalism means lower standards - and even criminal attitudes in certain quarters.

 

How do you know all this aqua? Personal experience, a friend of a friend tell you or you just making up stories, AGAIN!!!!  You might also note that Herb's story relates to the scamming he encountered in the private health system and his treatment in the public health system was light years ahead. But you know, you keep on with your mantra, black is white and white is black.