steveharrisisthelegend

I agree 100%. I have seen her as well and she is fine and kind and whatever yep, but she is also a normal Thai doctor who can do tests and describe medicines when values seem off. But there is barely anything useful about diet or exercise like you mentioned which is like 80%+ of managing diabetes. I need someone more specialized and knowleagble than this, I will keep looking, perhaps try contacting Dr Hawkins at CM Mediclinic - any western trained doctor at this point will make me excited to try. I will let you know if I find someone good in Chiang Mai and please do the same for me, perhaps we can help each other.

Thank you for all of this, excellent info. I gree that diabetes doctors in Thailand are not very good in general. They know how to read charts and prescribe medicine if a value looks too low or high, and depending on the doctor perhaps provide emotional support in dealing with diabetes but that's pretty much it. They have no real knowledge of insulin pumps, CGMs, low-carb diets or anything that modern diabetes type 1 treatment requires. In my opinion this is more of an issue of Thailand lagging horribly behind Western countries in diabetes type 1 treat than Thai doctors in general, as I have seen excellent doctors for other areas. Just diabetes knowledge lagging behind it seems like. Optimally I'd like to have a Western doctor practicing in Thailand who has knowledge of modern diabetes type 1 treatments but good luck finding that in Chiang Mai eh ???? Anyhow, I'll give doctor Joy a visit perhaps she can suprise me ???? and definitely checking out the type 1 website you linked. Good luck with your type 2!

I am Type 1 diabetic and need to attend a diabetes specialist for regular check-ups. I would prefer an english-speaking doctor. Can anyone recommend a particular hospital or specialist clinic in Chiang Mai, and if so, could you please post the details here?