** Don't expect spotless floors, pristine walls, or a surgical cleanliness.
** Most doctors and some nurses can speak a little English, but you may not understand the medical jargon they use unless you are a die-hard ER fan.
** Expect to get an IV. They stick them in you for almost no reason it seems like. You'll get used to it.
** Don't expect any privacy...especially in the emergency rooms you might have to bare parts of yourself you prefer no one saw in full view of other patients and their visitors.
** Be sure to have someone with you to translate...especially in the emergency room. That way, you can find out that they think you have appendicitis and have schedules surgery and you have a chance to tell them that you're sick from what you ate and nothing needs to be removed. Also, you have someone to plead your case when you want to check out, to ask questions about whatever it is you have, and to protect you from feeling like you are restrained by an IV in a cage full of people who can't understand you.
** I don't think you need to worry all that much about catching a disease in a hospital here. Just because they don't scrub every available surface with a myriad of chemical cleaning fluids doesn' tmean everything is germy. I feel safer in hospitals here than in America.
******NOTE******
If you are checking in, bring your own eating utensils, like a spoon and a pair of chopsticks along with everything else you might want or need during your stay.