I would advise people with a fracture of the hand ...

I would advise people with a fracture of the hand or wrist to go to the hand clinic in Wilrijk, right next to St. Augustine. Those doctors specialize in hands and wrist. I myself had an incredibly nasty experience last year with a doctor orthopedist named Hendrickx. I had broken a finger while traveling and there in the hospital I was advised to have surgery once back in Belgium. I ended up with the aforementioned doctor who, however, put my hand back in and said that 'the shaft was not hit' so no problem, it would 'heal'. Luckily he was on leave when I was 3 and a half! weeks later had to go back for a check-up and went to doctor Thibaut who immediately saw after the cast was removed that this was NOT good. Finger was crooked and whole hand was stiff. He sent me to the hand clinic where I had surgery the next day. My "unhooked shaft" turned out to be a complicated, twisted and splintered fracture in the finger. (But they had already seen that on the photos of St. Vincentius or not ?!). The finger has been put back together with screws and bolts. And with 7 months of physical therapy as a result, 5 times a week. Because all the tendons of the fingers shorten when you don't use them and I had to learn to bend my fingers millimeter by millimeter again, resulting in a lot of pain. Plaster a 'nice fracture' (and waiting for it to heal) is not a problem, a nurse can do that herself, but not recognizing a complicated fracture and pretending it will all work out is downright scandalous for a doctor who has made it his specialty . The nursing staff on the service are the cream of the cream, very friendly and professional. Doctor Thibaut himself was also very correct.