As a foreigner, i would say this is a good hospital. My korean language is very limited so its hard to communicate (my biggest struggle) but they did all their best trying to help me. I had to go through several check ups both in the gastro and hepatology dept. First was in the gastro (i couldnt eat, had upper right andomen pain and had chest pain as well), the nurse speak only in korean while the resident doctor can speak a very little english. I was prescribed meds but i felt its wasnt working since i am not getting better. I did an endoscopy but the result was read by a consultant/professor. And i was surpised he didnt speak english at all. So i tried to understand him with my very little korean.
Then few months later, i was rushed to the ER. This was in the midst of pandemic. I was refused to the nearby hospital due to my fever and i was told to go to St. marys (for the second time). The ER female nurse stationed in the room was a bit rude. She kept on reprimanding me for moving my body but i was shaking uncontrollably due to high fever. I kept on calling here in my broken Korean language but she keeps ignoring me (maybe bec i was a foreigner?) until the beeping in my bedside monitor became loud and soon some nurses and staffs came by to assesed me. Thankfully, the attending doctors speak english as i was able to explain what ive been going theough and hear their prognosis.
I was then transferred to covid ward and i would say the nurses and staffs were all very nice inspite of language barrier. After few days, i was transferred to a ward with 5 other patients in it. My only issue is that it was a bit noisy bec its in front of the nurse station and one patient was so noisy. But i would give a high rating for all the rounding nurses. They were all great.
 

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