{"id":52369,"date":"2016-02-27T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52369"},"modified":"2016-02-27T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:28:17","slug":"my-visit-to-singapore-and-lessons-learnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/27\/my-visit-to-singapore-and-lessons-learnt\/","title":{"rendered":"My visit to Singapore and lessons learnt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At my somewhat old age ,passing middles age of course ,I felt an irregular heart \u00a0beat and decided to check it up with a local cardiologist after paying about 2500 Rs<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we knew the doctor in a private hospital ,and without queuing up managed to sneak in amidst the protests of long waiting patients got the heart checked who gave a clean report<\/p>\n<p>And yet I decided to travel to Singapore and went to mount Elizabeth Hospital ( where we all ( not all !) go for further check-up like our health minister .<\/p>\n<p>Called the doctor and went there as soon as arrived \u00a0after paying around 15000 Rs<\/p>\n<p>He checked my reports and told me that as a senior experienced doctor he does not want to rip us off and did not suggest any other tests .despite the fact that he could have earned more by doing more tests<\/p>\n<p>To our surprise he was very critical of Private Medical trade in Singapore ,an indicated that almost all doctors in Singapore are commercialised<\/p>\n<p>He has a partner who started his own clinic in the same hospital ,now a millionaire\u00a0 by running a cancer clinic and ripping off Bangladeshi\u2019s .Indonesians , Indians and Sri Lankans<\/p>\n<p>Near Little- India in Singapore ,they have opened up a new hospital with hotel facility \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to attract more and more Asians .<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion is almost all the doctors are becoming commercial minded with slightest disregard to medical ethics<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera At my somewhat old age ,passing middles age of course ,I felt an irregular heart \u00a0beat and decided to check it up with a local cardiologist after paying about 2500 Rs Luckily we knew the doctor in a private hospital ,and without queuing up managed to sneak in amidst the protests of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}