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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BaliRob" data-source="post: 2450629" data-attributes="member: 36236">@Joe_the_boat.    Thank you so much for taking the trouble to try and help me.  I know I look to be the patient that does not visit his doctor but this is Indonesia.  For example - a brand spanking new hospital opened near me and I took the opportunity to ask the resident heart specialist if I could be on his List (only 10 minutes from home also see?).  I get a very pleasant young man who says, "Sorry I cannot help you because we do not have an Endocrinologist".  Well, my last experience trying to get one here in Bali went like this - Great I found one with an evening surgery - it was 6pm and there were 40+ patients waiting - obviously Idid not wait but decided to write a lengthy email describing my medical history and with copies of all blood and scan results hoping to make his job easier.  Did he reply - did he heck!   All this after my specialist learning that I had Congestive Heart Failure decided to deny that he told me to find a heart specialist and that I now did not have Kidney Disease 4.  This was said to me in front of a member of my staff and which he later refuted when I went back to him on a slightly different matter.If one has a complicated history needing greater skills than mending a fracture - being told to go to Singapore for treatment does not instill confidence.I will show you why the doctors and medical staff shy away - one look at my feet they either feel faint or want to amputate.Hope the attachments work,Rob</blockquote>

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