The hotel doctor at Raffles Hospital

Why it is on the list

Raffles Hospital keeps doctors and nurses on call around the clock for hotel and house visits.¹ The doctor who comes treats food poisoning, fever, sore throats, falls, sprains and back pain, gives injections and travel or flu vaccinations, dresses and stitches wounds, and takes blood for the hospital's own laboratory.¹ The hospital behind the visit is a tertiary one on North Bridge Road, with 24-hour acute and critical care, intensive care, operating theatres and specialist centres under one roof, accredited by the Joint Commission International since 2008.² For a patient from abroad, its International Patients Centre handles interpreters, medical evacuation and repatriation, and airport transfers.³

It is the wrong call for an emergency: for chest pain, a serious injury or anything that cannot wait, ring the hospital's emergency line on 6311 1555, which also dispatches its ambulances.¹

How to get it

Call 6311 1024, or send the online request form on the same page.¹ Have ready the patient's name, a number to confirm on, the complaint, the date and time wanted, and the hotel's address.¹ A doctor's visit is from S$327.00 including GST, before medicines and procedures; a nurse's visit from S$130.80.¹ For a visitor who may need the hospital afterwards, the International Patients Centre, reached through the hospital's main line on 6311 1111, arranges specialists, admissions, interpreters and airport transfers during office hours.³⁴

Discretion

The consultation takes place in the room, not in a clinic's waiting room: the doctor comes to the address given on the call.¹