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A patient of the Hong Kong Eye Hospital, run under the Hospital Authority, says some of its doctors are rude and inconsistent with their diagnoses. She also says several doctors have failed to warn her of the side effects of a prescribed drug, which may have contributed to her knee pain.
'I am very suspicious about the professionalism of the doctors in the hospital. I suffered from inflammation of an optic nerve in 1999. The syndrome recurred and my vision got worse late last year,' she wrote.
'Then, an ophthalmologist referred me to the Eye Hospital. This time, a doctor there roughly diagnosed the disease as the previous one and refused to perform further tests. He prescribed Prednisolone tablets (an oral steroid) without telling me of possible side effects.
'After that, different doctors were assigned for my follow-up consultations and the prescription varied according to their judgment. After about six months, I started to get knee pain. A private practitioner said it was a side effect of the Prednisolone tablets.
'Every time I go for follow-up consultations, I ask the doctors for details about my disease but some of them seem quite impatient in answering my questions. One doctor didn't tell me the drugs he prescribed for me were incompatible with my asthma medicine. If I had not asked him, I would not have known, until something happened.'