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You do know this is a well known quote?

It is a book written in the fifties, for people from commerce, from the military, and diplomats. When "Europeans" (the book is from Michigan) were "highly respected" in Thailand. It naturally assumes that you have servants (plural). It teaches you to use "tahn" for "you". This is not only wrong, it would not be appreciated by many Thais if you address them as "tahn" (which is pronounced short BTW, even today's textbooks tell you it is long). Tones are often not marked. That's like a textbook of English not writing the vowels. 'nuff said

Dr Veeravich at Bumrungrad is good. US trained Expensive, reckon 9000 B.

Badly comminuted knee fracture (Schatzker VI) The injured knee was visibly thicker than the healthy one for a year or two. And when the legs got swollen for whatever reason (eg sitting too long or taking amlodipine), the formerly injured leg - including the ankle - always was much more swollen than the other side. This lasted for over 2 more years. Hard to say what helped. My guess is, it were vigorous strengthening exercises (strengthening the muscles of the leg) that I started about 3 years after the accident. They made the knee pain disappear,too. BTW 10 weeks crutches is too long.

You can visit the after hours clinic about 16.30 even if it is your first time there. But you have to register first, at about 9a.m. So you have to go twiceon the same day. If you are a registered patient with the IoD already, ie you already have an HN with them, you still have to go twice, but the morning visit takes only 30 seconds. Only if you have a follow-up appointment, you don't have to come in the morning.