Has anybody had tests done at the San paulo hospital? I need a thyroid test and was wondering if it might be better going to Bangkok.
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Mart
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billseymour
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Can't speak for San Paolo, but we live in Phetchaburi and have had good experience with the Petcharat hospital.
If you decide to head this way, and in case you cannot read the Thai hospital names, the Phetcharat is the second hospital on the right of Highway 4 as you drive north, near the Wat Banda-it crossroads.
The first is the Thonburi Group hospital, which we suggest you avoid.
If you decide to head this way, and in case you cannot read the Thai hospital names, the Phetcharat is the second hospital on the right of Highway 4 as you drive north, near the Wat Banda-it crossroads.
The first is the Thonburi Group hospital, which we suggest you avoid.
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Ther is a web site for Pecharat Hospital. A friend had to take his wife there for an investigation into a lump in her breast. He was full of praise for the staff and said the service was superb and not costly. His wife was given the all clear. www.petcharat-hospital.com
Just visited the Petcharat Hospital web site posted above by machersjohn.
There is an english language option, on which they seem to have lavished loads of attention on every conceivable type of internet graphic effect (so much so that it is comical) but which suffers from typically amateurish English translation. Here is an example:
With experienced, determination, and great potential of our hospital 's affiliate team, we vision people in our vicinity receiving qualified medical services and well prepared qualified medical facilities equivalent to private hospitals in Bangkok. Therefore, Petcharat Hospital was established from January 25, 1997, thereafter.
I kind of get the jist but never having been to the hospital this lack of attention to detail does not fill me with confidence. Since Petcharat itself raises the issue of comparison with Bangkok Hospitals I checked out the Bumrungrad web site. English on their web site is excellent. Why, oh, why don't Petcharat pay for a professional translation!?
There is an english language option, on which they seem to have lavished loads of attention on every conceivable type of internet graphic effect (so much so that it is comical) but which suffers from typically amateurish English translation. Here is an example:
With experienced, determination, and great potential of our hospital 's affiliate team, we vision people in our vicinity receiving qualified medical services and well prepared qualified medical facilities equivalent to private hospitals in Bangkok. Therefore, Petcharat Hospital was established from January 25, 1997, thereafter.
I kind of get the jist but never having been to the hospital this lack of attention to detail does not fill me with confidence. Since Petcharat itself raises the issue of comparison with Bangkok Hospitals I checked out the Bumrungrad web site. English on their web site is excellent. Why, oh, why don't Petcharat pay for a professional translation!?
Jaime said
If their IT section is a reflection of their medical skills, I don't think I'd bother.
Or is it that unlike many places, they don't waste their resources on a top heavy admin section - they concentrate on what they're there to do................make poeple better?
I had a look for myself - it wasn't even comical. I went through:There is an english language option, on which they seem to have lavished loads of attention on every conceivable type of internet graphic effect (so much so that it is comical)
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If their IT section is a reflection of their medical skills, I don't think I'd bother.
Or is it that unlike many places, they don't waste their resources on a top heavy admin section - they concentrate on what they're there to do................make poeple better?
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Proper foreign heathen tongue on any Asian website is the exception, not the norm.
Just listen to recordings on any of the Thai internet or communication companies.
Don't pee yourselves.
Proper foreign heathen tongue on any Asian website is the exception, not the norm.
Just listen to recordings on any of the Thai internet or communication companies.
Don't pee yourselves.
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."
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As Farang says, very few Thai websites are written in correct English for a number of reasons.
Primarily they don't want to pay for professional services and would rather hire a webmaster that was educated to Bor 6 because he is cheap.
Secondly they don't want to lose face by admitting they can't spell in a foreign language so just leave the site all screwed up.
This goes for most Thai businesses. That aside though I have had very good experiences with Petcharat Hospital's medical services.
Primarily they don't want to pay for professional services and would rather hire a webmaster that was educated to Bor 6 because he is cheap.
Secondly they don't want to lose face by admitting they can't spell in a foreign language so just leave the site all screwed up.
This goes for most Thai businesses. That aside though I have had very good experiences with Petcharat Hospital's medical services.
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I spent 3 days in San Paulo a couple of years ago, and, apart from them not releasing my passport until the bill got paid (my insurance company in UK dragged their bums) I found it great. I had a private room with en-suite, tv, good food and some of the nurses were gorgeous.
Having said that a friend of mine had a minor stroke while in HH and after an initial diagnosis in SP he was taken to Petcharat Hospital where he had the necessary scans, then was brought back to SP for the rest of his treatment. He ended up staying there for 3 weeks until he was deemed well enough to travel back to the UK.
I've also had the pleasure of attending Bumrungrad in BKK for an ear infection and found it very pleasurable, like a 5* hotel in fact. I was booked-in, seen and relieved of my baht inside 30 minutes, you don't get that in Newham General even if you paid for it!!! Incidentally if anyone is trying for a visa for their loved ones in LOS to come to the UK, it's a good idea to get a full MOT for them in Bumrungrad, including a chest x-ray. The results come in a nice folder, all in English, and it gets them through customs this end no problem.
Having said that a friend of mine had a minor stroke while in HH and after an initial diagnosis in SP he was taken to Petcharat Hospital where he had the necessary scans, then was brought back to SP for the rest of his treatment. He ended up staying there for 3 weeks until he was deemed well enough to travel back to the UK.
I've also had the pleasure of attending Bumrungrad in BKK for an ear infection and found it very pleasurable, like a 5* hotel in fact. I was booked-in, seen and relieved of my baht inside 30 minutes, you don't get that in Newham General even if you paid for it!!! Incidentally if anyone is trying for a visa for their loved ones in LOS to come to the UK, it's a good idea to get a full MOT for them in Bumrungrad, including a chest x-ray. The results come in a nice folder, all in English, and it gets them through customs this end no problem.
I have been to SP hospital a couple of times and taken a friend there. OK for cuts and bruises or coughs and colds and may be OK for more serious things but seemed rather hit and miss to me. You will not find any top flight doctors there. I don't know Petcharat which is probably a good halfway house but I can recommend BNH, Samitivej and Bamrungrad in Bkk for anything serious. They have a lot of overseas trained specialists on the staff plus consultants coming in from outside. Also very good for regular medical checks.
A true anecdote. I was taken to a clinic in HH (not SP) highly recommended by a local with a broken collar bone several years ago. The doctor told me after Xray it was the worst compound fracture he had ever seen and would have to be sewn up with metallic thread. I decided not to hang around for this scary sounding treatment and went straight up to Bkk clutching my Xrays. The specialist at Samitivej laughed at the diagnosis from HH and said the silly fools didn't even know how to take an Xray properly which accounted for the weird diagnosis. The fracture was not too serious as broken collar bones go and healed without surgery.
A true anecdote. I was taken to a clinic in HH (not SP) highly recommended by a local with a broken collar bone several years ago. The doctor told me after Xray it was the worst compound fracture he had ever seen and would have to be sewn up with metallic thread. I decided not to hang around for this scary sounding treatment and went straight up to Bkk clutching my Xrays. The specialist at Samitivej laughed at the diagnosis from HH and said the silly fools didn't even know how to take an Xray properly which accounted for the weird diagnosis. The fracture was not too serious as broken collar bones go and healed without surgery.
That's some scary stuff. I wonder if true incompetence or, the ongoing quest to extract as much money from farangs as possible?Beguine wrote:A true anecdote. I was taken to a clinic in HH (not SP) highly recommended by a local with a broken collar bone several years ago. The doctor told me after Xray it was the worst compound fracture he had ever seen and would have to be sewn up with metallic thread. I decided not to hang around for this scary sounding treatment and went straight up to Bkk clutching my Xrays. The specialist at Samitivej laughed at the diagnosis from HH and said the silly fools didn't even know how to take an Xray properly which accounted for the weird diagnosis. The fracture was not too serious as broken collar bones go and healed without surgery.
Pete