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plokiju
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: Anyone had surgery in Korea? |
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I had to go to the emergency room over something a few weeks ago. It's not a big problem but to prevent it from happening again the doctor recommended I have some minor surgical procedure done.
Does anyone have experience with having surgery in Korea? The procedure is usually outpatient at home but they want me to stay in the hospital overnight. How much is does a hospital stay cost in Korea under the national insurance plan? Is everything covered or will it still cost me quite a bit of money? Anyone know?
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I had sinus polyps (sp?) yanked out of my sinuses with plier thingies when I had nasty sinus infection a few years back. Cost 70,000 won with insurance in a country hospital. Medical care in Korea is usually pretty cheap. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Anyone had surgery in Korea? |
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| plokiju wrote: |
| Does anyone have experience with having surgery in Korea? |
Yup. Vasectomy (outpatient) and emergency appendectomy (10 night stay)
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| How much is does a hospital stay cost in Korea under the national insurance plan? |
Well, for my appendectomy, the operation plus all the drugs plus 10 days in a private room came to 1.3 (3.5 without insurance). The private room for me is mandatory, but if you're only there one night and money is REALLY an issue, then go for the barnyard room (6-8 patients to a room plus their care-taking entourage all "sleeping" in the same room). |
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plokiju
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 1:49 am Post subject: Re: Anyone had surgery in Korea? |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
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| How much is does a hospital stay cost in Korea under the national insurance plan? |
Well, for my appendectomy, the operation plus all the drugs plus 10 days in a private room came to 1.3 (3.5 without insurance). The private room for me is mandatory, but if you're only there one night and money is REALLY an issue, then go for the barnyard room (6-8 patients to a room plus their care-taking entourage all "sleeping" in the same room). |
I had to stay at jjimjilbangs a couple nights a week for about 2 months. 6-8 people in one room is practically private after that. 1.3M really isn't that bad for a 10 day stay. Two days would have to be like less than 200,000 I would think. It's definitely not as invasive as an appendectomy and without a private room and all the drugs. It's got to be something reasonable. Thanks. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: Re: Anyone had surgery in Korea? |
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| plokiju wrote: |
| I had to stay at jjimjilbangs a couple nights a week for about 2 months. 6-8 people in one room is practically private after that. |
No, it's 6-8 patients PLUS their entourage (daughters, daughters-inlaw, grandkids, oldest son and their family), everyone camped out at halmoni's bedside, up all night not actually sleeping with visitors coming in and out at all hours of the night. If it wasn't for the private room, I would have gone Columbine well before my stay was up. I only had one roomate and he traipsed at least 100 visitors (no lie) through our room in the 4 days he was there. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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I have had four surgeries done in Korea.
The first was the removal of a really big, bad corn from between two of my toes. I am a real whuss when it comes to needles so I told him no freezing. It wasn't too bad. He then wamted to disinfect the area. He poured ethanol over the open wound. That was a real attention getter, whoooeee!
The second two were cataract removals. Thsi was done at Yonsei Severance. The eye surgeon eas a real pro, the eqipemt was state of the art, and he spoke excellent English. It was about 2.5 million for each, about 1 million from me and the rest on insurance.
The last was a major fungus - bacterial foot infection and the removal of the toenail. The freezing hurt more than the darn removal did.
I taught uni and they were all done during breaks. I would haver no hesitation in having surgery in Korea. |
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