医院历险记

今天终于下定决心到医院去看病了。上一次病的死去活来的时候都不去，今天是去了。其实也不是什么大不了的事，就是小小感冒。但是这里没有像马来西亚那样的有很多小小的诊所。这里无论大病小病都要到医院去看。说通了，就是医院里面也可以看门诊。又好又坏啦！好的是可以直接看专科，不好的是人太多太乱了。让我说说过程。首先必须先到柜台去说你想看什么专科医生。In other words, you have to be your own doctor first. 好像今天我就看了呼吸科，可能是跟感冒有关吧，是柜台的护士叫我去看这一个的。给了我一张小纸条，和叫我填一张form，是一张病历表（第一次看医生）。然后要到“挂号”柜台取那号码，那边就要给挂号钱了。因为第一次去，又没有他们所谓的社保卡。所以我必须买一张磁卡（如图）用来记录我的个人资料吧（还很hight tech的）。 那一张卡又要钱。就这样挂号加磁卡就约12块。对了，又一段小插曲。因为我想要claim insurance，所以就必须用我的official name -- 英文名。那一个柜台aunty不懂输入英文，要我到另一个柜台去。好了，给了钱，拿了一张纸到呼吸专科医生去等看病。还好人不多，很快就到我。那一边又有一点过程。门口的护士会先看看那一张纸，撕一半还给我（可以用来claim），然后打了几个chop，就叫我等一下。看了病后，听了医生说后，他就开了一些要给我。然后，我必须拿着那一张药方到“挂号缴费”柜台先给钱，然后再到“取药”柜台拿药。取药柜台上面列出我应该到那一号柜台拿药。药很多！！天，就是感冒而已就给了我4，5罐大装瓶的药。而且我发现好像都是中药，maybe I am wrong。有一个aunty好像要开药行一样，拿了由将近20来包大大小小的药。好了，就这样看完病，回家了。很有趣的经验。来了上海将近2年了，第一次看病！

English: Finally today I have decided to go to the hospital to see a doctor for my stupid flu/cold. Even last time when I was ill like hell, I still insisted not going to the hospital due to the messiness and crowd. It is certainly very different from Malaysia. We have a lot of small clinics almost everywhere. But, here those clinics are actually "inside" a big hospital. It is good and bad. Good is that you could see the specialist directly without being referred by those clinic doctors. Bad is that damn crowded and messy. Alright, let me describe the whole process for you. First of all, I have to go to the so-called reception to get a ticket. But, since it was my first time, I have to fill in a form, which is a medical history form (basically it is for the convenience of the doctor here). Then, I have to carry the ticket and the medical history to a "registration" counter to pay and get a "number" to see the specialist. Since I had a cold/flu, according to the nurse at the reception desk, I should see a respiratory specialist. Since this was my first time, and I don't have what they call "society card", I have to buy a magnetic clinic card (shown in the figure), which I think to store my information (quite high-tech, isn't it). To register and to purchase the magnetic clinic card I have to pay roughly 12 RMB. Oh yeah, the woman at the registration counter didn't know how to enter my English name, she asked me to go to another counter. Well, I have to claim my insurance for this, so, my official name is actually my English name. After registered, I got a piece of printed paper from the counter stating which doctor specialist and a number. Fortunately, it was not that crowded today. After waiting for like 5 minutes, I saw the doctor. Before that I have to hand in the paper I got from the registration counter to the nurse at the front door. She tear half of the paper and gave it back to me, which I could use to claim insurance. After seeing the doctor, she printed a piece of prescription for me. I have to pay first back at the registration counter, then afterward picking up the medicine from (of course) "medicine counter". On top of the counter window, I could see my name printed, which was quite cool (another high-tech). Out of my expectation, I got like 4,5 big bottles of medicines. Seriously, I thought it was only a stupid cold/flu. Well, I even saw an aunt like picking up 20 (at least) big big small small packs of medicines! Seriously, it was like she is starting a pharmacy business. Anyway, the whole process was not as bad as I would expect. Probably because it was relatively smaller hospital. After almost 2 years of staying in Shanghai, this was my first time seeing a doctor!