On my first visit on 12th August, they seem to be provide a very nice service. An intern was assigned to me to diagnose me. I told her my entire story about my coughing and she wrote it down in a piece of paper and she later presented the diagnosis to her boss, a male doctor. He is the head of the respiratory department of GH. The intern told me that he is the best chest specialist in Penang. Hmm...not bad.
On my second visit yesterday, I got a different doctor instead, unfortunately. She checked my chest x-ray, listen to my story, measure my weight, and checked my blood test results. The blood test I took last week was just a general blood test, not to check for TB. She told me nothing is wrong with my blood. Everything seems ok. She then asked me whether I'm keen on bronchoscopy. Bronchoscopy!!! Yikes!!!!!!!
What is bronchoscopy? It is a medical procedure where a doctor will insert a tube down your throat through your nostrils. The purpose is to check for those stuff in your lungs. Yikes!!!!! It is one effective way to check what has infected my lungs. But it will be uncomfortable and irritating. That was what the doctor said. Yikes!!!
Doctor V: Are you keen on doing a bronchoscopy?
Gabriel: Noooooooooooooo
Doctor V: I will set an appointment next month
Gabriel: Next week?
Doctor V: No, next month. It will be on 30th September.
Gabriel: (WTF...next month!!! 30th September!!! I might die by then....) Of course I just said it in my head.
Doctor V: We will monitor your culture of your sputum meanwhile.
Gabriel: (Still mumbling in the head.......WTF...Next month!!!!!!!)
Gabriel: Oh...ok. I will see you next month.
I'm going to a private hospital next week to do the QuantiFERON TB Gold blood test. I don't understand why this blood test is not provided by GH. I need to do this blood test to check whether I have TB or not. Alternatively, I can do the bronchoscopy to check for TB....yikes!!!! No no no no noooooooooooooo.
Before I leave GH, I asked the nurse in GH whether I can take out my chest x-ray to bring it home.
Gabriel: Boleh saya ambil x-ray pergi private hospital for second opinion
Nurse: Eh...tak boleh. Ini government....tak boleh ambil pi private.
Gabriel: (Bodoh!!!&#@@#@ GH)
Okaaayyy, looks like I have to take the chest x-ray again in a private hospital. That's not good. Taking too many chest x-ray will expose you to radiation. It is certainly no good. Stupid GH.
That's my experience yesterday at the respiratory department in GH.
QuantiFERON TB Gold blood test, here I come.....
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