A friend of mine had to go there last year for surgery. It was pretty highly recommended, so we all thought it would be good. All of us have had worse medical experiences in China. But there were still problems like:
1. Very poor air conditioning. My friend fainted the first time she tried to get up after the surgery, in large part because of the heat.
2. No communication between the doctor and the nurses. Her ultimate recovery was delayed because of this.
3. The costs were shamelessly padded, and they openly tried to manipulate the situation so she would leave after 12noon, instead of the morning as promised. This way they could add on another day's charge. The costs may have been less than that of Beijing United or SOS, but they don't tell you about things like the "room cleaning charge." We looked at how long it took them to clean (5 minutes to take out the trash, do a cursory sweep and spray down the bathroom with water) and the cost and figured out they were being charged about 500RMB an hour for this "service."
My ultimate recommendation? If you really want to save money, go to a good local hospital. If you want a really good, clean, comfortable private experience don't play around with Amcare. Just bite the bullet and got to BU or SOS.
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Re: Problems
This above review is utter rubbish, "A friend of mine had to go there last year for surgery. " and just now you decide to post?
Amcare is an absolute wonderful place to have your baby that employs the best doctors in all of china. The service is excellent, full English service available along every step of the way and a world class surgery facility.
There is absolutely no bill padding, everything was pre agreed on months in advance and they delivered exactly.
If you can read chinese simply google “美中医和” and you will see thousands of glowing reviews. This guy up there is a troll.
Re: Problems
Actually I am a woman, not a guy or a troll. If you read my other reviews you'd see I review things seriously.
I wrote that in April, when I had some free time to do silly things like post reviews. I only review when I have free time (as I do again today, a year later, because someone ran over my foot with their car and I'm having to sit around.) And I only do reviews I think will actually be helpful–that is, if I had a particularly good or particularly bad experience. Those experiences are very important to people trying to make a decision.
Your review is what is utter rubbish. You give no exact details, as I do. I'm glad for you that you had a good experience there, and I will not assume, as you did, that because you give them a review I disagree with based on my experience that you are therefore an idiot, a troll (or an employee of Amcare.)
I stand by my review. I'm relating to you the terrible experience I had at Amcare watching my friend get surgery for very serious ovarian cysts, suffer from the incompetence of the nurses and the face-saving of the doctor, as well as the very uncomfortable heat in the rooms and ridiculous lack of communication that lead to enormous bed sores and a longer recovery time for her. If they were honest with you about the cost, wonderful. Perhaps they've changed staff since we were there. But when we were there they gouged us for everything they could and padded out the bill. That's the truth, no matter what your experience might have been.
Why on earth would you write so hatefully about someone just because you disagree with their opinion? How childish.
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