2009

I am sure the aboriginals must be really happy with the way Australia has been developed since the arrival of migrants. Some may not admit it though. They have: -Education -Healthcare -Proper shelter -Social security -Pension -Technology -Comforts -Transportation -Law -Electricity -Plumbing -Proper clothing The list goes on. Even just "the wheel" and "metal tools". They were living in the Stone Age (literally) and it wasn't that long ago when Captain Cook arrived. I mean, if they don't like Western society and its inventions, advancements, and benefits, Australia is big enough for them to go back to living a Stone Age tribal life, if they choose. They can find their own spot in the outback. Invent the wheel themselves, electricity, iron tools. Everything they have been given and don't appreciate. But they wouldn't. None of them would choose to go back to that life

I am trying to wrap my head around anything that justifies this.

Why does this read like some kind of hard-done-by 'poor wife' story? Just like the recent story of a woman commiting premeditated murder on a bloke when he dumped her. It read like he was the antagonist in the relationship and somehow deserved it. And I am sure this old bird in the story is almost as lazy as her husband. Angry she has to cook dinner? I wonder whose work bought the ingredients? Probably he husband's. Women don't often stay with men who offer literally nothing.

Maybe I should bash my lazy wife who hasn't done anything worthwhile in a decade? Would that be fair enough?

-Cheaper lifestyle -Sex -Family -Work -Maybe politics, culture, migrant issues, PC rubbish I am sure Australia isn't the place it was decades ago.

No, it's about GPs not wanting to waste their budget sending people who are statistically unlikely to have cancer up the the hospital for x-rays and blood tests when they know that most cases will come back clear and it'll be a waste of the national health budget. Yet, I personally know (in my family, friends, and extended family) almost a dozen people whose cancer symptoms were written off by the GP as "nothing to worry about" and they were later diagnosed as a much more advanced stage. Yet, my aunt a hospital nurse for 4 decades disagrees with the GPs' cavalier approach in the UK. She was literally on her knees begging the GP to send her husband for a simple chest x-ray and basic blood tests cos she knew from decades of experience something was seriously wrong. The GP reluctantly agreed. It turned out to be lymphoma. He got lucky. With my friend's lung cancer, the professor doing his 10 year case study, shook his head in shame when he heard the symptoms the UK GP had ignored for years. He'd had cancer in the lung for 5 years before being diagnosed and it was a simple routine chest x-ray (in Thailand, no less) that showed something wrong and started the investigation. The GPs just don't like sending patients to the hospital and wasting money. I know a lady who had a heart attack for 5 days and during that time she went to the GP twice who said it was just her asthma and maybe a chest infection, gave her antibiotics. 5 days later she was in the ER, heart failure. The cardiologist there said it could have all be different for her had the GP been more proactive. The doctors in hospitals have a very different mentality than GPs in countries with socialist healthcare and it is ironically to do with money. The GP, as the primary care doctor, has a budget or quota that is affected every time they send someone up to the hospital. They worry about that and they use statistical probabilities to decide who to send. It ain't about you being exposed to harmful radiation from x-rays. It ain't like you'd realistically be going up to the hospital ever week for screenings. Maybe an extra few in a lifetime (in the latter half of your life).

How are ultrasounds useless? A standard chest x-ray is useful for showing others things too. I know a guy who ended up being diagnosed with lung cancer and it all started with the chest x-ray he had to have done for his retirement visa medical.

Yeah......right.

Seriously? Or should I say "seariously" ???? Sorry, couldn't resist. But <deleted>?! Thais are the biggest rule breakers out, yet jump at the chance to blame foreigners who actually want to visit this place.

Thanks What would you recommend in addition to this? Standard blood and urine tests? All of places offer abdomen ultrasound and chest x-ray too with these packages. Anything else?

I agree. Asians eats loads of carbs too: rice. Irish, potatoes Europeans, pasta and bread Always were lean people.

Racial overtones? Where?

In my30s No problems yet. Thanks

This is the world we live in. Men are always to blame. And apparently cannot be victims

Guess, calling a slut a lady make you feel righteous? Let's call a spade a spade here, eh?

What's with all the Thai apologists on this Forum? I know you wouldn't expect the same of Thai tourists in the West.

The irony.

Absolutely not. But the herd don't use logic.

This was not self defense. It was premeditated murder,lol.

A man's gotta do what a man does.

They never want you.

Can anyone recommend a good value place to go for routine health check up (blood work etc. etc) in Bangkok? Or at least just a lab clinic? If not a hospital. Thanks

Good price. Which lab, may I ask?

I am <deleted> then. I must just be a walking mass of uric acid.

As my EX would say: "You know too mutt (about Thai culture)". Lol