my sons throat hurt so we went to sanpaulo. 3 minutes aftering entering the buiding we were in the doctors office, he just looked in the throat and said it is tonsillitis. within 10 minutes we were out again, paid and received the penicilin.
Cost 1920THB!! I guess this is the farang rate, but it still sounds very high. As I do have three children who get sick every second week perhaps you can suggest another alternative with good service and more reasonable prices.
2 minute doctors examination 1920bath
Talk to Mr. Plum.
A lot of natural cures can be found in your garden. Also a balanced diet and a little exercise go a long way in avoiding getting sick.
Prescribing penicillin for a sore throat is in my opinion over-the-top. Many of today's younger generation doctors also tend to be prescription-happy, giving all kinds of fancy medicines they think will help.
I now avoid a top-name Bangkok hospital because they made me go through a course of intravenous antibiotics for a gastro-intestinal upset. This was later resolved by an old-school doctor without resorting to anything as drastic and at a fraction of the cost.
A lot of natural cures can be found in your garden. Also a balanced diet and a little exercise go a long way in avoiding getting sick.
Prescribing penicillin for a sore throat is in my opinion over-the-top. Many of today's younger generation doctors also tend to be prescription-happy, giving all kinds of fancy medicines they think will help.
I now avoid a top-name Bangkok hospital because they made me go through a course of intravenous antibiotics for a gastro-intestinal upset. This was later resolved by an old-school doctor without resorting to anything as drastic and at a fraction of the cost.
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For minor ailments, you could try The Polyclinic on Petchkasem Road. The doctors come from Petcharat hospital in Petchaburi which is generally regarded as the best hospital in the immediate area. Grid reference B3 on this map:
http://www.huahinafterdark.com/hua-hin-map.htm
For other information on medical services see:
http://www.expathuahin.com/hospitals-huahin.php
I think you'll find most places more reasonable on the wallet than San Paulo.
http://www.huahinafterdark.com/hua-hin-map.htm
For other information on medical services see:
http://www.expathuahin.com/hospitals-huahin.php
I think you'll find most places more reasonable on the wallet than San Paulo.
I think even Hua Hin (government) hospital is better than San Paulo these days. I would put SP at the very bottom of my list right behind the local Nong Khae village medicine man! 
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When I was in the UK there was an epidemic of upper respiratory conditions being experienced by children. Coughs, colds, a lot of ear infections, fevers and so on. A common treatment is antibiotics, which can create other serious problems. This article explains the risks...
http://www.healthychild.com/pharmaceuti ... iotic-use/
I look after a youngster myself. Before she came to me 18 months ago, she was always sick and withdrawn. I severely limited her sugar intake, banned Sodas outright and cut out dairy products, ice cream and anything with MSG, hydrogenated oils, fructose corn syrup and Aspartame. That basically eliminates 75% of what's on supermarket shelves!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... foods.html
I also made her go to bed early, so her body can properly rest and repair and sorted her teeth to eliminate illness through hidden infection. She was transformed. Bubbly personality and never a day off sick since.
When I did the same with my own children in the UK, my visiting mother-in-law (obese and usually unwell) called me 'a monster' for trying to maintain healthy eating habits. It amazes me that people can call these things 'treats' when they are more like poisons.
The tonsils are a natural part of the bodies defences. Tonsillitis can be triggered by such things as cold foods, ice-cream, coloured jellies and sweets, bacteria such as Strep, and food allergens. They all lower the bodies immunity.
If it were my children the first thing I would strip from the diet, to prevent sickness and support recovery, would be to ban sugar and dairy in any form until they had recovered. No cold foods or drinks. If they are getting repeated infections I would seriously look at their overall diet and test for allergies or food sensitivities. For sore throats and colds, it's granny's remedies for me. Vick's Vapour Rub was pretty good too. Not sure if it's still around.
OTC (over the counter) remedies are coming under the spotlight lately... http://baby.families.com/blog/why-you-s ... -your-baby
Can't suggest any particular Doctor. I don't know any locally that have the qualifications I seek. If you think yours is expensive you don't want to see the natural healer I went to see in Ratchaburi yesterday. Since he's become a national figure in Thailand he can charge what he wants. Despite that, the queue was still out the door.
http://www.healthychild.com/pharmaceuti ... iotic-use/
I look after a youngster myself. Before she came to me 18 months ago, she was always sick and withdrawn. I severely limited her sugar intake, banned Sodas outright and cut out dairy products, ice cream and anything with MSG, hydrogenated oils, fructose corn syrup and Aspartame. That basically eliminates 75% of what's on supermarket shelves!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... foods.html
I also made her go to bed early, so her body can properly rest and repair and sorted her teeth to eliminate illness through hidden infection. She was transformed. Bubbly personality and never a day off sick since.
When I did the same with my own children in the UK, my visiting mother-in-law (obese and usually unwell) called me 'a monster' for trying to maintain healthy eating habits. It amazes me that people can call these things 'treats' when they are more like poisons.
The tonsils are a natural part of the bodies defences. Tonsillitis can be triggered by such things as cold foods, ice-cream, coloured jellies and sweets, bacteria such as Strep, and food allergens. They all lower the bodies immunity.
If it were my children the first thing I would strip from the diet, to prevent sickness and support recovery, would be to ban sugar and dairy in any form until they had recovered. No cold foods or drinks. If they are getting repeated infections I would seriously look at their overall diet and test for allergies or food sensitivities. For sore throats and colds, it's granny's remedies for me. Vick's Vapour Rub was pretty good too. Not sure if it's still around.
OTC (over the counter) remedies are coming under the spotlight lately... http://baby.families.com/blog/why-you-s ... -your-baby
Can't suggest any particular Doctor. I don't know any locally that have the qualifications I seek. If you think yours is expensive you don't want to see the natural healer I went to see in Ratchaburi yesterday. Since he's become a national figure in Thailand he can charge what he wants. Despite that, the queue was still out the door.
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The Hua Hin Hospital seemed very reasonable in price and fairly efficient. They don't speak much English is the only drawback.
San Paulo is one I would not even consider bad in most every way.
If it is anything serious BKK Bumrungrad hospital is an excellent choice. Great service and great Doctors, everyone speaks english and they are by far the most efficient hospital I've ever been in.
San Paulo is one I would not even consider bad in most every way.
If it is anything serious BKK Bumrungrad hospital is an excellent choice. Great service and great Doctors, everyone speaks english and they are by far the most efficient hospital I've ever been in.
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We always take our boy to Dr. Samet on Petchkasem Road, opposite Soi 80.
A list of Hospitals and Doctors in and around Hua Hin is here http://www.expathuahin.com/hospitals-huahin.php
We always take our boy to Dr. Samet on Petchkasem Road, opposite Soi 80.
A list of Hospitals and Doctors in and around Hua Hin is here http://www.expathuahin.com/hospitals-huahin.php
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People keep bad mouthing San Paulo, but never seem to substantiate it with facts.norm wrote: San Paulo is one I would not even consider bad in most every way.
I keep saying on various threads that I and my family have had nothing but excellent treatment at reasonable costs from them (sometimes even free) for minor ailments.
I will admit that my son-in-law does work there, although not really on the medical side.
It would be nice to hear more facts as to why San Paulo is not so good compared with other Hua Hin hospitals.
airborn's example in the OP is a good starter.
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I've no experience of San Paulo, but I know several people who have used Hua Hin hospital in the last year and speak well of it.hhfarang wrote:I think even Hua Hin (government) hospital is better than San Paulo these days. I would put SP at the very bottom of my list right behind the local Nong Khae village medicine man!
I have had no personal experience at San Paulo but I have read enough articles about it to shy away from it.
This is a post from another forum for your info. There are many more but I think this one should suffice. If you want more google can probably provide them. Don't think I am suppose to mention the other forum but if anyone wants to know feel free to PM me.
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At first when I saw this topic I thought I would pass but then I had to read it. Tuktukmike and other people I'm hopeful that my post will save some lives. I have to let you who read this post know that I have no benefit from anybody, be it other hospitals nearby like Hua Hin Hospital, Thanarat Military Camp Hospital or the one which is one hour away (providing it's not rush hour) from Hua Hin--Petcharat Hospital. I wouldn't want to touch this hospital, San Paolo, be it to promote it or to sabotage it but I just hope that if you can wait and if you have time...drive on somewhere else. I hope my experience can be helpful for those who just relocated there and are thinking of relocate there.
25th May 2006, my brother got a telephone call from my father that he couldn't drive home, he felt dizzy and his chest felt like it was bursting. My brother found my father in the back seat of his car alone parking and waiting, by that time my father became pale and he was sweating a lot. My sister who was working for my father also arrived right after to the scene once my brother called her they didn't know what's going on but decided it's best to take our father to a hospital. The image of big, white, clean building of San Paolo did a bit of a miracle because that's the first place they thought of taking him. Although they argued a bit to take him to Petchrat which is like an hour away, would be faster because they were on Cha-Am - Pranburi bypass, but still by the look of our father they thought San Paolo should be best.
My sister called me and my other sister. When I arrived at the hospital I saw they put my dad in a wheelchair and I jumped out of my car letting my bf drive on to look for parking. I ran to my father and tapped him on his shoulder lightly he turned to me he looked quite allright. He waved at me and he smiled at me calmly and he was glad to see me. I walked with him to the emergency room they laid him on the examining bed and the nurses start to ask him how he felt if his chest hurt and if he could breathe. My dad told them that the chest was not in pain but he had difficulty trying to breathe. Did I say they lay him flat? Yes, they laid him falt on his back. And they were attaching things that they said would check my father's heart and how it beat. They started to take things off my father's like wallet, watch, and ring, which they gave to me later on. But what puzzled and made us furious to these days was that they kept asking if my father was allergic to any medicine for 10 minutes. 10 full minutes they kept asking the same bloody question which we said "no" "no" "no" and we just hoped that they would do something that would help he feel better.
The nurses were walking around, asking same silly question, not knowing what to do exactly and no doctor were called in. There were like 4 nurses around at that time. Then 10 minutes after my father arrived he choked and we thought it's his last breath. It took them 10 minutes and my father's choke that they knew they should call this insensitive, pompous, not-knowing-what-to-do doctor they had in house to do the cpr. They tried to pump my dad's heart for one hour during the time all the students were called to see my father being pumped on the chest. And it's not only students who walked around to see our dad, there're maids, people who didn't look like they belong in ER. We cried we prayed but no, our dad passed away.
1. Was it his time that he should die that day?
2. Was it not his time if the nurses recognized what he was having actually symtomps of heart-attack?
3. Was it not his time if the hospital had up-to-standard treatment ready for this sort of thing?
4. Was it not his time if the nurses and doctor were actually trained?
To answer tuktukmike, no, they don't have any procedure to deal with heart attack.
This hospital overcharges everyone they see they can but that day they didn't have the nerve to come to us and ask for a satang because they knew that they were uneducated bunch of space-waste people who claim themselves to be medical service providers.
When we bade our father goodbye and that we had to arrange temples and all things you need to do when your loved ones pass away, I walked to my car and I heard 2 female nurses and a male nurse in the reception hall laughing at my father incident while they were mimicking one of their colleagues' gestures of CPR. How gracious. A hospital that's supposed to cure people and be sympathetic to their clients (I use "clients" for this hospital becuase for them no one is patient...they're just after your money), but instead they're just laughing and making fun of a dead person's incident???? I swore to myself right there and then that I would stop anyone I know going to that hospital.
My sister told me later on that when my father arrived with those symtomps the hospital receptionist wouldn't let my father in the ER because they wanted my father to "register" himself to the hospital first. Was it because they wanted to see if my father could afford their so-called treatment? I don't know. My sister had to shout at them that my father's not well and need immediate care. I don't know what changed their mind easily though. A big, furious shout??? Or if my brother happened to carry a few thousand baht notes??? If you have insurance keep the card at hand who know how many lives were left lying dead in front of the hospital just because they thought you can't pay them. I mean those hospitals. I understand they have costs for opening hospital...it's business after all but hey...how about humanity. Feeling and caring for other human beings. If any hospital investers are reading my post here, try to imagine that what if your children or any loved ones drive out there somewhere then there's an accident, being left alone waiting for a big prove of big money to come. Mate!
I was in the position to expose this hospital but I chose not to because I know they have good legal protection, including dirty tricks from local mafias. My family knows very well now that we should stay away from it and my friends will be told the same. If you ask any expats living there, they will say the same. The military hospital in Pranburi is surely treating diseases and sickness better than San Paolo but one very big drawback, they don't speak English. Petcharat in muang Petchburi on Petchkasem Rd. 1 hour away from Hua Hin is the next best thing. If you can wait, and if you have time, and if you love yourself and your family and friends, go there. If you have more time like 3 hours, go to Bangkok to international hospitals like Bumrungrad or BNH. Bumrungrad, Sukhumvit Soi1, is very good and not as expensive as BNH. BNH, Convent Road--between Silom and Sathorn Rd., is also very good but they added costs on their big renovation they did last year. Bangkok Hospital is very very good at healing heart attack and they provide special center to deal with this especially, however, the traffic around the hospital is always heavy, even heavier on weekend. We thought of calling them to send a helicopter if our dad was recovered from the choke but no chance for us because, once again, those people in San Paolo don't even know what basic symtomps for heart attack are. I wish I knew. I wish I read about it, about heart attack, before it happened. My father was a healthy man and he's only 69 years old we, his siblings, his friends, never ever thought he would pass on this fast. Everyone was shocked but I just thought I wish I wish I wish. I wish I knew San Paolo was not the place for our father.
Once again, if it's not too bad and if it's not an emergency don't call San Paolo. I don't live in Hua Hin anymore otherwise I could help with the number but there's a polyclinic on the intersection going up to BKK. You can find the number easily from guidebooks like Hua Hin Guide. If you know where the minibus service station is, you should probably have seen the poloyclinic. This place is a branch of Petchrat Hospital (please don't think I'm tryng to promote this hospital I wish there were more hospitals I could mention but unfortunately there are not many at all). The polyclinic opens daily but only until 8pm each day. However, if there's an amergency, you can call them and they will provide ambulance which will take you straight to Petchrat Hospital. Before I left Hua Hin, Hua Hin Hospital is renovating and building a new heart center and a new ER. It's supposed to be finished by now but I guess things slow down. They plan to hire specialists from Bangkok hospitals to station there regularly, rotating, if it really happens I think it will be a big improvement for Hua Hin and its residents.
There are so many other death and over-charged cases by San Paolo...which I won't mention but this is all I can share straight from my own experience.
This is a post from another forum for your info. There are many more but I think this one should suffice. If you want more google can probably provide them. Don't think I am suppose to mention the other forum but if anyone wants to know feel free to PM me.
Quote;
At first when I saw this topic I thought I would pass but then I had to read it. Tuktukmike and other people I'm hopeful that my post will save some lives. I have to let you who read this post know that I have no benefit from anybody, be it other hospitals nearby like Hua Hin Hospital, Thanarat Military Camp Hospital or the one which is one hour away (providing it's not rush hour) from Hua Hin--Petcharat Hospital. I wouldn't want to touch this hospital, San Paolo, be it to promote it or to sabotage it but I just hope that if you can wait and if you have time...drive on somewhere else. I hope my experience can be helpful for those who just relocated there and are thinking of relocate there.
25th May 2006, my brother got a telephone call from my father that he couldn't drive home, he felt dizzy and his chest felt like it was bursting. My brother found my father in the back seat of his car alone parking and waiting, by that time my father became pale and he was sweating a lot. My sister who was working for my father also arrived right after to the scene once my brother called her they didn't know what's going on but decided it's best to take our father to a hospital. The image of big, white, clean building of San Paolo did a bit of a miracle because that's the first place they thought of taking him. Although they argued a bit to take him to Petchrat which is like an hour away, would be faster because they were on Cha-Am - Pranburi bypass, but still by the look of our father they thought San Paolo should be best.
My sister called me and my other sister. When I arrived at the hospital I saw they put my dad in a wheelchair and I jumped out of my car letting my bf drive on to look for parking. I ran to my father and tapped him on his shoulder lightly he turned to me he looked quite allright. He waved at me and he smiled at me calmly and he was glad to see me. I walked with him to the emergency room they laid him on the examining bed and the nurses start to ask him how he felt if his chest hurt and if he could breathe. My dad told them that the chest was not in pain but he had difficulty trying to breathe. Did I say they lay him flat? Yes, they laid him falt on his back. And they were attaching things that they said would check my father's heart and how it beat. They started to take things off my father's like wallet, watch, and ring, which they gave to me later on. But what puzzled and made us furious to these days was that they kept asking if my father was allergic to any medicine for 10 minutes. 10 full minutes they kept asking the same bloody question which we said "no" "no" "no" and we just hoped that they would do something that would help he feel better.
The nurses were walking around, asking same silly question, not knowing what to do exactly and no doctor were called in. There were like 4 nurses around at that time. Then 10 minutes after my father arrived he choked and we thought it's his last breath. It took them 10 minutes and my father's choke that they knew they should call this insensitive, pompous, not-knowing-what-to-do doctor they had in house to do the cpr. They tried to pump my dad's heart for one hour during the time all the students were called to see my father being pumped on the chest. And it's not only students who walked around to see our dad, there're maids, people who didn't look like they belong in ER. We cried we prayed but no, our dad passed away.
1. Was it his time that he should die that day?
2. Was it not his time if the nurses recognized what he was having actually symtomps of heart-attack?
3. Was it not his time if the hospital had up-to-standard treatment ready for this sort of thing?
4. Was it not his time if the nurses and doctor were actually trained?
To answer tuktukmike, no, they don't have any procedure to deal with heart attack.
This hospital overcharges everyone they see they can but that day they didn't have the nerve to come to us and ask for a satang because they knew that they were uneducated bunch of space-waste people who claim themselves to be medical service providers.
When we bade our father goodbye and that we had to arrange temples and all things you need to do when your loved ones pass away, I walked to my car and I heard 2 female nurses and a male nurse in the reception hall laughing at my father incident while they were mimicking one of their colleagues' gestures of CPR. How gracious. A hospital that's supposed to cure people and be sympathetic to their clients (I use "clients" for this hospital becuase for them no one is patient...they're just after your money), but instead they're just laughing and making fun of a dead person's incident???? I swore to myself right there and then that I would stop anyone I know going to that hospital.
My sister told me later on that when my father arrived with those symtomps the hospital receptionist wouldn't let my father in the ER because they wanted my father to "register" himself to the hospital first. Was it because they wanted to see if my father could afford their so-called treatment? I don't know. My sister had to shout at them that my father's not well and need immediate care. I don't know what changed their mind easily though. A big, furious shout??? Or if my brother happened to carry a few thousand baht notes??? If you have insurance keep the card at hand who know how many lives were left lying dead in front of the hospital just because they thought you can't pay them. I mean those hospitals. I understand they have costs for opening hospital...it's business after all but hey...how about humanity. Feeling and caring for other human beings. If any hospital investers are reading my post here, try to imagine that what if your children or any loved ones drive out there somewhere then there's an accident, being left alone waiting for a big prove of big money to come. Mate!
I was in the position to expose this hospital but I chose not to because I know they have good legal protection, including dirty tricks from local mafias. My family knows very well now that we should stay away from it and my friends will be told the same. If you ask any expats living there, they will say the same. The military hospital in Pranburi is surely treating diseases and sickness better than San Paolo but one very big drawback, they don't speak English. Petcharat in muang Petchburi on Petchkasem Rd. 1 hour away from Hua Hin is the next best thing. If you can wait, and if you have time, and if you love yourself and your family and friends, go there. If you have more time like 3 hours, go to Bangkok to international hospitals like Bumrungrad or BNH. Bumrungrad, Sukhumvit Soi1, is very good and not as expensive as BNH. BNH, Convent Road--between Silom and Sathorn Rd., is also very good but they added costs on their big renovation they did last year. Bangkok Hospital is very very good at healing heart attack and they provide special center to deal with this especially, however, the traffic around the hospital is always heavy, even heavier on weekend. We thought of calling them to send a helicopter if our dad was recovered from the choke but no chance for us because, once again, those people in San Paolo don't even know what basic symtomps for heart attack are. I wish I knew. I wish I read about it, about heart attack, before it happened. My father was a healthy man and he's only 69 years old we, his siblings, his friends, never ever thought he would pass on this fast. Everyone was shocked but I just thought I wish I wish I wish. I wish I knew San Paolo was not the place for our father.
Once again, if it's not too bad and if it's not an emergency don't call San Paolo. I don't live in Hua Hin anymore otherwise I could help with the number but there's a polyclinic on the intersection going up to BKK. You can find the number easily from guidebooks like Hua Hin Guide. If you know where the minibus service station is, you should probably have seen the poloyclinic. This place is a branch of Petchrat Hospital (please don't think I'm tryng to promote this hospital I wish there were more hospitals I could mention but unfortunately there are not many at all). The polyclinic opens daily but only until 8pm each day. However, if there's an amergency, you can call them and they will provide ambulance which will take you straight to Petchrat Hospital. Before I left Hua Hin, Hua Hin Hospital is renovating and building a new heart center and a new ER. It's supposed to be finished by now but I guess things slow down. They plan to hire specialists from Bangkok hospitals to station there regularly, rotating, if it really happens I think it will be a big improvement for Hua Hin and its residents.
There are so many other death and over-charged cases by San Paolo...which I won't mention but this is all I can share straight from my own experience.
OK Norm, a sad story, which you have taken the time to find - thanks for that.
What I was really looking for was any HHAD members who had suffered at the hands of San Paulo.
The Internet is full of stories and fairy tales - I have no idea if this one is true, or whether somebody has a grudge against San Paulo.
I regularly hear stories of how much better the doctors in the expensive Bangkok Hospitals are when compared with the San Paulo doctors. I know for a fact that the San Paulo doctors regularly work in the Bangkok hospitals. Therefore if the doctors are the same, maybe its as your post suggests - lack of equipment at San Paulo.
I have no axe to grind either way - just interested to know if anybody has any personal bad experience of San Paulo; or is San Paulo simply the hospital everybody loves to hate.
What I was really looking for was any HHAD members who had suffered at the hands of San Paulo.
The Internet is full of stories and fairy tales - I have no idea if this one is true, or whether somebody has a grudge against San Paulo.
I regularly hear stories of how much better the doctors in the expensive Bangkok Hospitals are when compared with the San Paulo doctors. I know for a fact that the San Paulo doctors regularly work in the Bangkok hospitals. Therefore if the doctors are the same, maybe its as your post suggests - lack of equipment at San Paulo.
I have no axe to grind either way - just interested to know if anybody has any personal bad experience of San Paulo; or is San Paulo simply the hospital everybody loves to hate.
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We've always had prompt, cheap and good service from Sao Paolo for minor ailments. But would never for one minute let my family go there for anything remotely serious, do not consider it a proper hospital compared to the Bangkok one's, lack of equipment and professional doctors amongst other things.
Examples:
-Had a doctor give friend a sickness report for work without checking him out, was done as a financial arrangement, made clear from friend from the start.
-Given the work permit health certification by just looking in my mouth and asking me to say 'ahhhhhhhh'. Ok, no big deal that one.
-Doctor readily, and repeatedly, prescribed me some fairly serious meds that I had to go through several hoops in the UK before eventually being prescribed, ie: UK doctor never prescribed but referred me to a psychiatrist who after some sessions prescribed. I just chanced my arm and went in SP and asked for them by name and said I'd had them for years in UK to give it a bit of credibility, he asked why I want them and I touched my head and say I have anxiety attacks, he replied "you have a headache ?", I replied "no, anxiety attacks", he looked puzzled and just wrote out the meds I'd asked for with no more questions. He did not understand the word 'anxiety' although he spoke decent enough English. Was in with him 2-3 minutes max. I was happy as saved me trips to Bangkok and going through the full process again, but begs some questions.
We've always used Samitivej in Bangkok, everything there is first class compared to any hospital I've ever been to before in UK, or wherever. They were just about same cost, give or take, for son's birth by CS as the Petchaburi hospital. Other things have been more costly or same as SP or Petchaburi, so not always more expensive at these better hospitals.
SJ
Examples:
-Had a doctor give friend a sickness report for work without checking him out, was done as a financial arrangement, made clear from friend from the start.
-Given the work permit health certification by just looking in my mouth and asking me to say 'ahhhhhhhh'. Ok, no big deal that one.
-Doctor readily, and repeatedly, prescribed me some fairly serious meds that I had to go through several hoops in the UK before eventually being prescribed, ie: UK doctor never prescribed but referred me to a psychiatrist who after some sessions prescribed. I just chanced my arm and went in SP and asked for them by name and said I'd had them for years in UK to give it a bit of credibility, he asked why I want them and I touched my head and say I have anxiety attacks, he replied "you have a headache ?", I replied "no, anxiety attacks", he looked puzzled and just wrote out the meds I'd asked for with no more questions. He did not understand the word 'anxiety' although he spoke decent enough English. Was in with him 2-3 minutes max. I was happy as saved me trips to Bangkok and going through the full process again, but begs some questions.
We've always used Samitivej in Bangkok, everything there is first class compared to any hospital I've ever been to before in UK, or wherever. They were just about same cost, give or take, for son's birth by CS as the Petchaburi hospital. Other things have been more costly or same as SP or Petchaburi, so not always more expensive at these better hospitals.
SJ