My 86-year-old mom was Dr Tan Yeen Inn's walk-in patient, and I was absolutely not impressed by this doctor's insensitive way of telling us that we should have made an appointment before coming when her clinic's policy is a first-come-first basis arrangement, that we had held up her other patients because it took a longer time to attend to my mom, and that she does not do catheter insertion because it is a nurse's job. Dr Tan also complained to us that it was inconvenient for her receptionist to go fetch a smaller catheter because the larger one was hurting my mom during insertion.
I will have her know that Dr Dhillon, the orthopedic surgeon at the same hospital washed my mom's diabetic wound on several visits when it could easily have been done by a nurse.
There are doctors and there are doctors, and Dr Tan is the kind who commands no respect from me. She's too 'good' to do menial jobs though she charges a specialist fee when performing the menial, nurse's task of catheter insertion. She has no bedside manners and I left appalled.
