When you have money, you can go to the United States to see a doctor, and this is just the threshold of entry. How to see a good doctor is a technical job. The money spent, did not see a good disease, or deceived people are not a few. As the old saying goes, every major event needs to have a quiet spirit. The more you are in a hurry, the more you can't rush, the more you have to go through the process, the more you can't skip a step.
Here's how to get a good deal at a U.S. hospital.
First, prepare one or two target hospitals. It is not necessary to go to these two hospitals to see a doctor, because you do not necessarily understand the medical, selected may not be appropriate, but must have an understanding of the next step to help explore with the intermediary organization, otherwise it can only be led by the nose. How to choose the target hospital? There are two references. One is the U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of the nation's best hospitals, which is divided into a comprehensive ranking and a specialty ranking. The top ten hospitals are authoritative worldwide. Another is the list of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) guideline committees. For example, Prof. Azzoli of Massachusetts General Hospital is the chairman of the ASCO Lung Cancer Treatment Committee, leading the development of the U.S. Lung Cancer Treatment Guidelines, and is the world's top lung cancer expert. Even if you can't get an appointment with Prof. Azzoli, the strength of Massachusetts General Hospital's lung cancer treatment is evident.
Second, find a reliable agency. Going to a U.S. hospital is a complicated matter, in addition to the technical work, there are also gas work. For seriously ill patients, the most precious thing is time and energy! If it is not bad money, please leave the professional things to the professionals to do. At present, there are quite a few medical intermediaries in China, but not every one of them is reliable. There are two things to look for when evaluating an agency: the medical team and the referral qualifications. Whether the medical records translated by the intermediary are accurate and whether the recommended hospitals and doctors are suitable depends on the professionalism of the medical team. Referral agencies with official authorization from U.S. hospitals can ensure fast and smooth appointments with authoritative U.S. hospitals and doctors, and even get partial discounts on medical fees. When you visit the agency, you can ask the other party to directly show the referral qualification certification of the U.S. hospital, or referral authorization.
The third thing is to make sure you get a good appointment with the hospital and the doctor. Here is a tip, the United States doctors are allowed to multi-practice, a doctor can be attached to a number of hospitals, and even open their own clinics. Appointment of a doctor in a hospital is not the same as an appointment with this hospital. When signing a contract with an intermediary, it is important to make a clear distinction. Some informal intermediaries intentionally confuse the concept of the two, saying that the appointment with an authoritative doctor in a large hospital is actually taken to a private clinic in the United States. Private clinics can look at minor ailments and even provide outpatient chemotherapy for cancer, but the equipment and number of specialists are limited, and are of little significance to seriously ill patients visiting the United States. Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital and other big-name hospitals, the implementation of multi-disciplinary expert joint consultation for seriously ill patients, the quality of care is more guaranteed.
Fourth, prepare your questions in advance. After arriving in the U.S. successfully, prepare yourself for the questions you need to ask before you go to the hospital to see the doctor, and it's best to write them down on a piece of paper in case you miss them. American hospitals have a lot of humane settings, such as children's wards decorated as an underwater world, but also doctors can be so rigorous as to seem unsympathetic, such as appointment times. If you make an appointment with the doctor for an hour, the doctor is not in a position to delay too long after arriving because there is the next patient waiting for him. Patients are encouraged to prepare their questions in advance, and the doctor will allow plenty of time to answer them, so that once you're out of the room and remember that you missed a question, it's best to save it for your next appointment.
Fifth, trust the judgment of American doctors. There is an article on the Internet that talks about the difference in medical habits between Chinese and Americans. Chinese people like to question a doctor's good diagnosis: "Ah, how come it's okay? You check again?" Americans like to question a doctor's bad diagnosis: "Are you sure I have this disease? Is it possible that there is something wrong with the equipment?" A while ago Tencent Caixin reported that a cancer patient received treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the U.S. through the Centene family, a Harvard Medical School teaching-affiliated hospital, and the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, which is ranked No. 4 in the U.S., established in partnership with another Harvard-affiliated hospital. When this patient sought medical treatment in China, her doctor did not recommend surgery for her because he was concerned that the risk of surgery was too high, but the American doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital told her that, despite the difficulty and risk of this surgery, if the doctor's judgment was incorrect after cutting open the abdominal cavity, it could be stitched up again, and the trauma to the patient would only be a tiny incision; if the judgment was correct, the surgery would be completed successfully, thus preventing the disease from further If the judgment is correct, the operation will be completed successfully, thus avoiding further development and expansion of the disease: therefore this operation is worth a try. In the end, the surgery proved that the American doctors' judgment was correct, and the patient's uterine tumor was successfully removed.
Sixth, legally protect your rights and interests. Chinese people go to the U.S. hospital to see a doctor is legal consumption, not shy to see people's daughter-in-law, every American in the U.S. hospitals enjoy the right to see a doctor, Chinese patients also enjoy. Formal intermediary organizations can provide this legal advice and help, and must not do it, with the same domestic as the unscrupulous medical trouble. U.S. hospital police are patrolling with guns, once a medical disturbance occurs, the police suspect that your behavior may threaten the safety of the hospital staff and other patients, you can directly shoot. In foreign countries, there is no place for you to say that you have suffered a loss when you are not in a position of power.
Since you have decided to go to the United States to see the most advanced medical level in the world, to protect the medical effect must be the first, as far as possible, to book the authority of the hospital, choose the authority of the doctor. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you are prepared to do all the work you need to do, and then if your medical records are translated in such a way that they do not truly reflect the changes in your condition, not only will they not be able to help the doctor to make a diagnosis, but they may also be misleading to a certain extent.
There are many other things you need to be aware of when visiting a U.S. hospital, so I won't go into them all. There is only one core principle, and that is to get well without any problems. If you do everything perfectly, even if you can't produce the desired results, there is no magic bullet in American hospitals, but at least you won't have to regret it.