internationalism

Ups, i have confused (also others) a ct with ultrasound. that one is 5-10x cheaper than CT. Somebody has mentioned 750b for half abdomen, so full should be 1500b. i have asked a dr for an ultrasound for cancer. She said its limited and I should do CT instead. As her english was not great I did not ask her further questions. I went to another hospital and radiologist also said it has use for detecting cancer only at few larger internal organs. ask your dr if ultrasound would be sufficient for you. if somerhing not right you can do CT as the next step, to confirm findings. in a sense a CT is more invasive, Chest CT equals 100-800 ordinary xrays. As i read only one xray is recommended per year (i had already 7 this year - that is due to pneumonia iand separate covid infections).. radiation from chest xray stays in the body 10 days. With CT it stays for 2 years. here some quote "The typical CT radiation dose is 10 to 20 millisieverts (mSv), which is associated with a lifetime risk of fatal cancer of approximately one per 2,000 CT scans.". Another link mentioned 30k excess deaths in the USA yearly due to CT. So you are trying early cancer detection, at the same time getting a very high dose of cancerous radiation.

Emirates now has some 35% of thai international passenger load. that is a very strong position, the other airlines, including thai airways, have only some 2% on average. any new airline getting on this market would be marginalised and in price war with emirates. Also thai airways had already at least 2 sales thiis year. The last sale lasted the whole June, with european prices starting from 22k, as one member stated here earlier. That for direct flights. TG well night have another 1-2 sales this uear with rock bottom prices for early birds. BA would be in direct competition to TG. what really matters are european summer holidays. Thai holiday season from November might not materialise, for many different reasons. I dont care for BA, mediocre experience with them - they have overloaded one of my flights, and tha was expensive one (i have checked in online, finally they got me on that fligjt as the last passenger boarding, and seated on business. I also wont use their partner, Qatar, for an outdated airport (no bathroom at gates, no free shower airside - which for me is essential for layover).

Both full abdominal. In bangkok, kanchanapisek hospital. Should be cheaper in chonburi province

If you have problematic teeth do crowns. Over 10k each. First root canal and later 2 visits for crown. Talk to a good dentist about options. Dont tell them what you want. First listen to them.

Governmental hospital 1800b, but long waiting several weeks. Or another one 2700b waiting 3 days

Ask your insurance for a list of hospitals they accept in thailand. Thai issued policies do give a list of hospitals you are allowed to use. Some top ranked hospitals might be excluded. Some hospitals won't accept your policy. For example piyavate hospital would blank not accept pacific cross policies. They have stated it publicly. The sure bet are the governmental hospitals. The problem with smaller of them they don't have insurance department. My local hospital told me that strait at admission. Secondary care hospitals might have insurance department, not sure how they are good in communication with foreign insurers. Language barier and different working rules. if you are thinking about a major treatment, do shop around for at least 2 private, as well as one governmental hospital, to be certain you won't be forced to co-pay if exeeding limit of your policy. Some people mentioned that doctors from private hospitals were working also at the governmental one and were able to offer treatment there at fraction of private. Bear in mind that you might need regular check ups, tests after your treatment and your condition might reapear within a year, or treatment wasn't fully successful or there might be complications, expensive medicines prescribed over a long time. Top rated private hospitals are known for inflated prices and not needed additional charges, above those quoted. Some cheaper, better value thai issued policies would increase their premium 25% (as pacific cross) to 100% (as Thai Health Insurance PLC) for 2 years if you have a large claim. I would imagine some foreign issued policies might have similar rules, double check small print of yours

Majority of countries need vax certificate on entry. germany removed this requirement temporarily for summer holidays, till august. Possible some orher countries copied them. Vax was mandatory to travel on trains in europe, there were railway police patrols checking it on carriages. for entry into thailand needs to be not home done ATK, but at testing centre, probably some €15, with certificate. If positive you cant travel, so airfare can be lost and there is possible risk of home quatantine. You can get positive tesys for up to 3 months. So you can't travel and possibly also can't be vaxed in that time. rules are changing, with the next waves some countries will put temporary restrictions. I won't be surpriced if thailand would do it. Even ATK on the border. Also covid iinsurance, that one they also can sell on the border. everybody serious about international travel should get jab, just to make travel that much easier and cheaper. i also bet more people got their travel, health insurance

What are chances for an international driver licence to get points? i would think doesn't exist in any country, so not likely in thailand

Yellow book is pretty usuless when travelling internationally. Nobody wants to see it. only vax certificate. i think you should not bother. If there would be any need for them so they would be easily accesible. at the end of the last year the pm offered new years present to foreigners. It was digital international vax certificate. As i remember they also had of yellow certficate option to be delivered by post, but there was no way to pay for this service. Check mor prompt application, the last icon is about an international certificate.

Airline websides dont force to download any application. Search flights on skyscaner, you can chose monthly chart for the cheapest flights, but book directly with airline. Prices are low from september, when summer holidays ends. They would be rather falling, as fuel fall within the last month.

Diphaya insurance allowed me to renew my covid policy over a month the previous expired and gave me some 20% discount for not claiming. It cost them 50k to cover my omicron hospitalisation (they suppose to pay not only medical bill, but also room charges up to 100k). start corresponding with aetna now, the sooner the better picture you will have and more options to chose. some insurers might exclude pre-existing after 2 year of joining. You can ask them now direct question.

I just referenced to your suspicion, that doxy caused remission. as to the other 3 mentioned medicines, they were previously researched separately. Those well known medicines are used in some cases, when regular cancer chemotherapy has too strong side effects or just don't work at all in some cases. There are many more repurposed medicines, with known tens of years safety record. And in thailand they are cheap, in comparison to cancer specific medicines which are not generic and are imported. Cocktails of several medicines in chemotherapy is now the rule

check for "doxycycline cancer" - used experimentally in London clinic for brain (together with metformin, mebendazole and statin). other anti-malaria medicines (chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, quinine) suppress immune system, that's why used for SLE, lupus. I haven't heard about doxy. But all oral antibiotics do kill gut friendly bacteria, hinder natural defence, if taken for long (as in case of malaria prophylactic for minimum 30 days). https://www.economist.com/international/2019/02/28/repurposing-off-patent-drugs-offers-big-hopes-of-new-treatments

I assume it was thailand. That system exists less than a year, the last year had 200 participating hospitals. Possibly many more hundreds by now. But it was set up for patients requesting moving from one hospital to another, using some online application. Thats from bankok post article "NT, GBDi join hands to launch national healthcare database". I have registered recently with kanchanapisek hospital, which is affiliated to sirirach hospital. But having this same address, phone and passport number, and having online registration form, they did connect my accounts. Also they did not have my medical record from the nearby government hospital I have stayed this year for 4 nights and from piyavate private hospital 10 days omicron. So possibly only private hospitals share data, but not the governmental once and not between private and governmental. No harm to apply to a new insurer, on condition they will only offer exclusion of preexisting and not refuse policy, because it would hinder further applications to the other insurers, who would just exclude or even not exclude some minor and outdated illness. When I was considering some minor policy from AXA, I have asked misterprakan (don't apply, if hospitalisation below 6 months, because AXA is particularly strict) and the AA (do apply and only likely exclusion, but not refusal). I decided to not apply to avoid any risk of exclusion. There are examples on this forum, when minor preexisting conditions were removed from the policy in 2 years on renewing. No harm to ask for that removal, if not offered automatically, it can be granted. There are also statements, that insurers would hard scrutinise large claims within the first 2 years. Some might even decline renewing policy within the first 2 years. there is also relevant thread

you should name this airport, to make your story somehow credible. Somehow I have doubts on you telling the full story. He would not allow you to enter, unless you pay then and there. I don't think officer would be that blatant, and at the time when is not that busy at airports. It suppose to be another officer interrogating you, or even shift supervisor, who is at hand to help. The officer who stopped you works at his boot the whole shift. He would rather give phone number to an agency he works with. He would rather say about "administrative costs" and not boast about hundreds illegals on his book. So did you take his name and phone number for future entry? How it suppose to work, if you arrive outside his shift - he does only 40-48h work in a week. You can always report that officer as his personalised stamp with his number he put in your passport. At BKK starts A than 4 digits. Same on departure stamps. Have you already reported him? Are you going to do so?

possibly he was mislead by some special offer, happy hours, which were advertised outside and was surprised when asked to pay. Or was asked inflated price, above what he regularly gets at that very bar. Some beer prices went up recently, I think chang. Maybe he was being cheated by waitress, who in the absence of the owner would pocket some money. cheap charlie doesn't venture to pubs if he can get at 7/11 or even less at supermarket beers-no-brand-name or Siam Sato rice wine. And drink just outside shop or nearest park.

you have just registered on this forum and this your very first post here. All you subsequent posts and interactions are also only here on this thread. Yet you reference to the other discussions on this forum - night time violent attack and attempted rape on female which put her for many days at hospital. I have participated on several threads about that attack, but you are mistaking me for somebody else - please do read my post there again. That brutal attack is nothing comparable to any flasher. This particular one was not violent by any means - flasher run away when she starter filming him. If he was danger in slightest he would took away her phone and destroy evidence. I don't see this rescue lady as a victim of crime, more like incident. She was not scared, intimidated, petrified - she took out her mobile and recorded video. The very same night most probably many people were violently attacked, raped or were victims of the other serious crimes in Chonburi province. Some of those were reported, many were not - only very few % of rape are reported. Also not every crime is released by police to media. That flasher likely been doing it many times, maybe nightly, maybe weekly, and probably for years. Likely he was reported on some occasions. That is low profile crime, sentences are short, from 30 days or/and fine - that is flasher is mentally fit. I would think many of them would have psychiatric help ordered by courts, hospitalisation. Not even necessary incarceration.

if they cover it under "medical tourism", as it should be within law, there would be several million more coming from countries with strict laws. Starting with Malaysians, and later on with Chinese, Korean, Japanese. Affluent tourists, families, tour groups don't mix with each other and ganja crowds would be another niche market. It's not only gap year students, backpackers, which would be first attracted, but all social groups. That good popular feeling within thailand from the day ganja was legalised indicates the other asian populations attitude and it itself is large potential to tourism. Not sure about the USA, europe, where ganja laws are liberal for many years. Still, they would also be coming to thailand, if prices are right - surely not yet, with prices higher than in countries with long laxed history

different supply chains. in the large towns would be cheaper, so shop around in CM. Go to many pharmacies. Sometimes short expiry date would be discounted and new production higher

when oils come to play, nothing matters. He went there to pressure for increased oil production and contracts for the USA companies to import. Beside OPEC quotas, from vast SA reserves. In the previous 5 years Saudi Arabia has increased armaments import by 61% - most from the USA, which increased global exports by 15%. So arms for oil deal was done once again, but nothing was ever mentioned in any press releases. That's how international politics works. Biden arrived to Riyadh from Israel, another big importer of american armaments. Both countries are the middle east powers or police for the USA interests in the region. That's why biden visited them right now, in the wake of oil crisis https://www.dw.com/en/sipri-saudi-arabia-largest-importer-of-arms-us-biggest-exporter/a-56872307

so what facts did he find, which were not known to him before? still, it was rather post-election publicity stunt. He is aiming higher and has good PR team

" he had taken her to several hospitals but all Covid wards were full and he couldn't get her admitted."

some thai issued accident policies do exclude moto accidents driving. Likely it also won't be included in this policy. Travel insurance covers also health, so it's entirely to traveller if he gets separate policy. Even regular health insurance have some international coverage for emergency treatments and for accidents. Probably many americans do have health insurance which would cover them in thailand, but not that many europeans have any health insurance

for 30 days and covers all border entries.

only 20% of those 300b (so only 60b) goes for insurance. Much more goes to the fee collecting service - they got 30% commission so 90b. The rest 50% is 150b and that goes for tourism development. This accident insurance for 30 days covering up to 500k might be a good deal for some travellers, but now days most have their own health insurance, travel insurance and even separate accident insurance - which all cover accidents and with higher cover, in millions of baht or even $ and euros. So this up tom 500k cover will be divided between different insurers, one including tourism ministry fund. As this policy will allow only hospitalisation at the government hospitals, which are very reasonably priced, those insurance claims will be rather low, in tens of thousands in the great majority of cases. Cost of orthopedic operation in thailand is around 100k, hospital stay is from 1350 to 2000b, so even serious accident with a month hospitalisation might be only some 150k total.