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though I agree with your views MO frust, let me share this experience by a friend who has just been admitted to ICU at private hospital last nite when it was confirmed she really had dengue. Day 1-sat, she went to private clinic & the doctor assured her the fever accompanied by purging is because of food poisoning. Take the medication after third or 4th day come back if still got fever. So friend (63yo) went thru fever, nausea, tired, purging stage until day 4. She regain her appetite but still had fever despite paracetamol. Last nite we insisted she ask her adult children seek treatment at the emergency ward of private hospital, which thankfully they did, so now all we can hope is she will recover from this disease. Another friend shared her friend's mom was not so fortunate, she too had continuous fever, went to clinics (JB) the doctors prescribed panadol until almost a week later, finally seek treatment at hospital. Blood tests were taken, unfortunately she passed away the same day. I too had dengue fever last year but due to my medical history (ca) I promptly went to emergency ward of private hospital the very next day because of sudden onset of high fever & nausea with headaches. The attentive medical officer casually ask "your area got dengue cases" I wasn't sure but said maybe. So he proceeded & ask if its ok to run blood tests for dengue & H1N1. I did & less than 2hrs later I was admitted when it was confirmed as dengue +. So pls as care provider, not everyone is as knowledgeable as you all are. Some people can be very annoying with little complains they run to seek medical attention while others like the friend say, its ok the doctor say food poisoning so I should be fine.

I dont want to say that private care is not good but there are some who treat dengue as normal. In dengue we have this term that is close monitoring. Most privates dont do that because only Specialist see their patient twice a day and even worst once a day. Not so many MOs in private hospitals. So there is lacking of close monitoring. Severe ill cases dont send to private, instead sent them to general hospital. At least there is a doctor who always present in the ward for 24/7.

Thank you for this post. I find that it is very educational to the normal laymen like myself despite the heavy usage of jargon. I had a scary experience with my son, whose temperature fluctuated for about 4 days, but it wasn't accompanied by any vomiting or the sort. Oh and he also had a slight rash and he was a little too tired all the time. Of course he cannot yet talk properly so he couldn't tell me if he had the other symptoms like sengal-sengal badan, headache and all that. Of course I was scared to death of losing him, if he was in fact, infected but due to so much complaint from doctors about people hogging the ED and KK unnecessarily, I just decided not to seek for medical help just in case I became of those hoggers. I read up and asked some people who have been infected/had family members who have been infected before and they said that their family members didn't have a fever when dengue FEVER was detected. So, I start to wonder if fever is the only indication or if that rash was just a rash or an indication of dengue without the fever? And what's up with this so called new strain of dengue, is that even true to begin with? So, you see, MOFrust, I know you are frustrated with the people as you mentioned in your post, but the rest of us aren't doctors and I think we have every right to be concerned about our health (and our loved one's as well) and that's why we need doctors to diagnose our illnesses. For people like us who don't deal with illnesses like it's run-of-the-mill kind of thing, every sign/symptom is a potential illness so I hope you will be granted patience to deal with your patients. Thank you.

Yes it is patient's right to concern about their health & their loved one, but i think what mofrust trying to convey here is please make a brilliant complaint, don't complain without any knowledge & accuse doctor blindly.
I got 1 baby which was referred to ED from KK for neonatal jaundice with Serum Bilirubin (capillary) of 250. However the parents only brought their son to ED after 24 hours. Repeated serum bilirubin was 350. The father was very angry and accuse the doctor in KK for not properly check the baby. I explained to him the differences between venous & capillary blood and also the time frame which he still cannot accept & keep accuse the doctor!

Rainy season has more possibilities of getting infected with various diseases like dengue, chikungunya etc. Once should take more precautions during this season. Every country has similar issue for this mosquito spreading diseases and everyone is affected by this.