Beijing United Family Hospital — Attraction in Beijing

I will give you the shortish version if I may. My wife and I were on the cruise of a life time, celebrating our anniversary, visiting various cities in China on our way to Japan on a super duper 6 star 450 passenger 36000 tonne cruise ship. We sat down at the whizz bang Michelin hatted restaurant ready to enjoy our 15 course degustation, including wines Frois Gras, Caviar and Lobster Thermidor and I woke up 7 days later in the Intensive Care Unit of the Beijing United Family Hospital with tubes in every orifice (orifi?) of my anatomy. I had been intubated on board the cruise ship by the ship’s doctor while the captain made full steam for Tanjin the port closest to Beijing, 13 hours away. I had suffered a seizure x 2 and it was found at hospital a pulmonary embolism. I was interbated and made ready for a 3 1/2 hour ambulance trip to Beijing with an ambulance attendant hand pumping me oxygen every 6 seconds. I was admitted to the Emergency Department where it was going I also had suffered a gastric ulcer brought on by physical stress. Somewhere along the way I contracted pneumonia so my lungs needed suctioning at regular periods. It was later found 6 days later when I regained consciousness that I had sustained a fractured left humurus (not funny) which was also dislocated from the shoulder joint which required an operation to stabilise it with three pins and rebuild the rotator cuff and relocate the head of the bone into my shoulder. For extra fun there was a fractured T7 vertebrae and to top everything off two broken ribs 8 & 9 on the right hand side. So anyway I am back and in the land of the living with thanks entirely to my beautiful wife, the captain, doctor and crew of the Seaborn Soujourn and the fantastic doctors, nurses and staff in the Intensive Care Unit at the Beijing United Family Hospital who rescued me from the brink of death after 6 days in a coma. Now it is the long slow road to recovery. I spent nearly a month in hospital while the doctors were MRI ing and CT scanning me and asking whether I had ever hit my head on or with anything. Putting tubes in to my body and taking tubes out of my body. Balancing and fine tuning my medications and getting me in a fit state to fly so that I could be handed over to my wonderful nurse Wendy who was flown to Beijing from Brisbane Australia by our excellent travel insurance company. Wendy then accompanied me and my wife and took charge for the nearly 24 hours that it took to fly me back to Melbourne Australia and hand me over to the hospital here. Well that is my story. If you need a good hospital in Beijing...

We went to the hospital for our 15 yr old with major food poisoning. We tried to go to another one of their locations but their clinic location would not take patients under 18 yrs old so we went to this location. We arrived at 5pm and left at 8pm; surprisingly fast compared to hospitals in the USA. Brett Chen was our doctor; there was another doctor that we preferred but seemed to be getting off work when we arrived. Brett was professional and clear. The other doctor came to speak with us as we were checking out and mentioned that he was highly suspicious that it was salmonella but that he needed to see the test results in about 24 hrs. They did however behave like an emergency room and wanted to talk about a CAT scan for ruling our any issues with his appendix. We asked to wait for the blood and stool test before jumping to CAT scan. The hospital was very clean. Staff was very patient and kind at a stressful time. On a lighter note, the nurse assigned to us nice and provided some unintentional giggles with her English translations. Her English was great; she had extensive medical vocabulary but she did not know the nuances of the language. It was super cute and she helped to provide some smiles at a tough time. We appreciate all the staff for their help and confirmation that the antibiotic approach that we had been taking just needed another 24 hours and that it was not something...

I fell down and went to the emergency room for the second time two weeks ago because my problem wasn't solved, I was in pain probably due to nerves and ligament injuries difficult to tell considering that the doctor barely examined me, told them that pain killers and muscles relaxers are not helping so they injected me in the injured arm causing 100 times more pain. I was there crying while they were saying that the injection wasn't the cause of that pain. Doctor left without checking me, basically they left me crying in a room until the pain disappeared. Here I am now not with just one arm injured but two because probably the rude way the nurse put the injection hurt some nerve or ligament even more. Doctors need more preparation in my opinion and don't suppose to ask the patient what they can do.. because clearly I'm not a doctor that's why I'm going asking for help. Unfortunately I left and didn't go further with this because I can't pay for a 10.000 rmb...