The best doc I ever had was from a clinic in Woodlands too!
Could we be talking about the same doc?! 
Anyways, I was hospitalised once for Appendicitis. That occured
years before I entered Nursing. It sure wasn't very comforting when
the next morning, during the ward rounds, the Surgeon rebuked the
Med Officer in front of me, saying, "You should have sent her in
for surgery last night! Why did you wait till today? Something
could have happened!" and I was . 
I had an ex-colleague who survived a rupture of his appendix. He
was, however, warded in the ICU for about a week or so because with
the rupture, dirty intestinal contents get emptied into the
abdominal cavity, infecting all the organs around it and the
microorganisms get carried by the blood around the whole body,
causing major sepsis and nasty infections!
Sorry to learn of that very unnecessary death. 
He should have heeded the pain and possibly, fever, and gone
straight to the doc.
