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Folks, you're right. Clean record on what must be some 70 trips in and out, but never know in the LoS, especially with it being "law", combined with money hungry types. No bus for me tho', up and down to Sg. Cheers.....

Am contemplating a 4 day overstay, due (visa stamp) out on 8'th March, but flight to home country is on 12'th - should be for a good few months.

before next visit. I do have a 60day visa available on my 6mth visa, which would be good to keep. Appreciate these 'new' laws seem to be more strictly enforced, but wonder (anyone have recent experience) if a very sorry and 2k baht fine would still cover it, Prefer not to waste a day doing a border or office visit if avoidable....

Greetings all, and I wanted to post an update, for info and thanks to all the folks who had good input. Overall differences in my case between hospitals and treatment advice and costs were quite different. B'grad quotes totaled circa $5k, and going over these, almost $3.5k would have been for a separate day to excise the largest affected area and perform a skin graft. ( The St Louis hospital didn't feel separate days or graft were medically required,but that is of course anyone's choice, especially if worried about scarring ). Stick a few hundred on for general nicer / better facilities, English skills etc at B'Grad and the pieces come together. I'll never know if future events will determine if my choices were correct, but overall am happy with them.

Likely it was sunshine that affected me, so as we know, be careful in the sun, especially fellow Jockinese who go from a kind of blue tinged skin, to white to red to purple then peel !

Hope everyone has at least one great moment today...

R.I.P. fellow Jock, and hope the young lass recovers well.

Thanks for that post. I had picked up on that name, and would have been my next call actually. Glad you got a job well done, cheers...

Thanks again folks, for the great and informative replies. As various posts say, B'grad does seem a modern, clean, well equipped hospital with good people. Might have to go back to Bonnie Scotland soon 'cos of crap offshore situation and apart from some NHS 'stories', will miss those smiley wee nurses........

I know there's a lot of apples and oranges to consider, but I personally don't like the ( my perception, but through personal and friends' experiences ) padding of bills and lack of clear written reports or communications.They probably could have told me I needed immediate 2 million Baht surgery and I would have sold my nieces !

Joking apart, it did set my mind off, just hearing the 'c' word, but, anyway, without immediate doom prescribed,.....

I did visit St Louis this afternoon, missed Dr Parichat, saw Dr Whichai briefly, who advised to talk with surgeon Dr Suthep. A decent chat medically, and from the same info to work with, made an appointment, and the estimated costs of this stage sound a lot better.

Hopefully no posts of someone who saw Dr Suthep and is now missing the wrong ear !

Thanks again folks. Does seem to be a wide difference in costs, and I appreciate all situations are different. The mention of the word cancer even if not a current severe diagnosis and the thoughts go a bit wobbly, any money / savings becomes just a tool, decent treatment at a fair cost is the goal,

Thanks again. I saw a Dr Supanee who did some N2 on 3 spots and a total of 5 small sample cuts, for biopsy. Cost, cBHT 25,000 so far, seems fair.Now, proposal is to remove the affected areas, 4 small ones, maybe currently 4-5mm in size. There is 1 bigger one on back, 15-20mm redness area, that the other Dr, Sukit who is a skin/plastic surgeon, mentioned more than once about a potential skin graft needed. That may be the higher cost reason but again, trying to get some specifics on medical necessity as I also mentioned that it is not the aesthetic side I am concerned about.personal experiences info much appreciated folks, thanks.

Thanks for the assists. I will try St Louis for a second opinion. The Doctors at B'grad did speak, to a certain level, but more the kind of waffle when I was asking some more specific questions, about the medical and financial side, and have had occasion in past to tell them to take large medicine costs off a final bill.

First post, and hope is acceptable. Recently visited Bhumrungrad and skin centre where doctor biopsed 5 skin blemishes, and basal cell carcinoma diagnosed and advised to have all areas removed for further checks.Quoting a total of almost US 5,000 all in ( barring further problems ), including a potential small skin graft for the biggest blemish. Been fining it difficult to really get answers ( not fluent thai ), and wondered if anyone has experienced similar problems, possibly used different hospital etc.. Not trying to pick on Bhumrungrad, just wondered about some stories regarding falang as easy prey, or similarly, any great experiences. Thanks...