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Sometimes hospitals try to make patients pay for things that should be free. Traffic accidents are a good example. The hospital may try to bill the patient thinking this way in the end insurance would pay. Patients in whose orbit they see a foreigner are another example. Ramathibodi Hospital once tried to make me pay for the treatment of the sister of my current girlfriend. Nice try. Sometimes the "medical necessity" is debatable. You can live very well without a couple of teeth, or with some pain, or with some stiff joints. But there may be better options. They may try to charge you for better options.

AZ-Moderna-Moderna Then got omicron. Took Paxlovid, started on day 3. Symptoms were very minor, felt under the weather for just 1 day, strange feeling in the chest (it would be an exaggeration to call it pain) for 2 weeks. Symptoms were so light that I wouldn't have made a test, but I was due to fly to BKK and didn't want to arrive here and be put in quarantine. So I got the test, it was positive and I cancelled the flight.

Or buy a fully refundable business class ticket. Done that many times.

I had the opposite experience. I once took part in protests against goverment policies in the US as a foreigner. I even helped the Amrrican activists to organize protests. The other protesters didn't care about my nationality. The police didn't care either. There were demonstrators in favor of the government policy and I had some lively discussions with them. From my accent it was quite clear where I was from. But I never heard anything like "you are not even American" or " your own goverment does the same" (true). They didn't care about my nationality either.

Dr Umaporn also works at Bumrungrad, twice weely. At the other 2 places, only once a week, which can be a problem. She doesn't do ultrasound. Bumrungrad has good specialists fir ultrasound, the other 2 places, i don't know. Dr Suntchai works fulltime at BNH.

Cannot second that.

You cannot make an online appointment for what OP wants. What he wants can easily take one hour. So I wouldn't dare to go there later than 2pm. 1pm (ie after lunch break) would be better.

If you get deported from Thailand, you have to pay for the ticket first. The time until your flight you spend in IDC. If you don't have money you wait in IDC until someone pays for you. There are people in IDC waiting for years. The German goverment will not pay. Deportation is not a free ticket.

I just re-read my post and can't find where I wrote this. Can you please help me out and quote where I wrote that news should be ignored?

Pom's suggestion is still working with many miles tickets. Just don't cancel immediately, cancel after arrival. I just did this with a miles ticket from AA. I didn't really need an onward or return ticket, but better safe then sorry. So I used my AA miles to buy a ticket from BKK to Europe and only canceled it after arrival. Got miles and taxes back.

It's all over the news. But the 7-year old girl who died from heatstroke (she was forgotten in the school van) is obviously more important to most people.

It is nice to hear that something can be done. Too many doctors told me there is nothing that can be done. Which doctor did you go to?

I think so, too. But its not easy to get in the mood when it's burning down there. ????

This was one of the first diagnoses I got, even there is nothing visible. Took fluconazol 200mg 11 days (no effect), and bifonazol cream more than 2 weeks (the cream made the burning sensation worse). The urologist recommended lidocaine cream, yes, of course it helps. But it's not exactly a therapy. Steroid cream also helps, I tried one for 4 days now (recommendation from dermatologist). This just proves an inflammation, although no redness. The cream also contains some disinfectant, I would be reluctant to use pure steroids as long as I suspect some infection. Bepanthen cream with added chlorhexidine also helps a little bit.

Yes, the first doctors examined and empirically treated the usual STIs (Go, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, Trichomonas - PCR all negative, twice). Then the urologists at Samitivej and Bangkok hospital both diagnosed prostatitis, and both advised to stop antibiotics... Yes. We have known each other for 4 years, this was the first time without condom. Had we checked for STIs before sex it wouldn't have helped because this isn't a STI. May I ask where you were treated?

Pain at the perineum, and burning pain at the head (glans) of the penis (outside, the skin of the glans is burning, not the foreskin and not the urethra inside). Peeing is not worse than before the prostatitis. Yes, certainly. (All the other doctors before Dr Umaporn told me to stop antibiotics...:() Good idea For prostate drainage several times a week. But in the meantime i learned that this is quite controversial, so maybe i first just try levofloxacin for 4 weeks. Not sure what to do. Yes, exactly my thoughts.

Yes. Sensitive to levofloxacin. What worries me a bit is that it showed sensitivity to some other antibiotics (ceftriaxon, augmentin) that i had taken before (but less than 2 weeks) without any effect.

4) in your translieration its bplaek

1) arrive = tueng Tueng laew ! (We/he/it) arrived! Maa tueng = arrive here, literally: come and arrive Maa is the action, tueng the result (see 10)) 2) sia: you state, that something is broken, that's a state of affairs sia laew: it was not broken before, and now its broken. You are talking about an action, not about a state. An action resulting in a state, the result is the state of brokenness Often interchangeable 3) yes 4) เเปลก plaek (the l is silent in Bangkok colloquial speech) 5)- go out and have some fun bpai tiao tek (not disco) - travel for fun bpai tiao tale 6) no You cannot put chop next to khon diao, that's an oxymoron If you want to say it, omit le, make a pause instead 7) samue 8 ) dtalort waylaa 9) payayaam make an effort (sometimes you know very well you won't succeed) longdu try something out, see whether it works - more colloquial 10) mong = look Mong hen implies that you see it, mong is just the act of looking Mong mai hen: i look, the result is i don't see it = i cannot see it Mong is the action, hen or mai hen the result 11) "more" and "one more time"

1) arrive = tueng Tueng laew ! (We/he/it) arrived! Maa tueng = arrive here, literally: come and arrive Maa is the action, tueng the result (see 10)) 2) sia: you state, that something is broken, that's a state of affairs sia laew: it was not broken before, and now its broken. You are talking about an action, not about a state. An action resulting in a state, the result is the state of brokenness Often interchangeable 3) yes 4) เเปลก plaek (the l is silent in Bangkok colloquial speech) 5)- go out and have some fun bpai tiao tek (not disco) - travel for fun bpai tiao tale 6) no You cannot put chop next to khon diao, that's an oxymoron If you want to say it, omit le, make a pause instead 7) samue 8 ) dtalort waylaa 9) payayaam make an effort (sometimes you know very well you won't succeed) longdu try something out, see whether it works - more colloquial 10) mong = look Mong hen implies that you see it, mong is just the act of looking Mong mai hen: i look, the result is i don't see it = i cannot see it Mong is the action, hen or mai hen the result 11) "more" and "one more time"

There was a thread about this in 2016, long closed. I am suffering from prostatitis for 6 weeks now. Just like Mike555 wrote in 2016, i got it after unprotected sex with a girl. She turned out to have vaginosis with god knows which bacteria. I had a burning head of the penis first, 2 weeks later developed symptoms of prostatitis. No urethritis, no burning when peeing, no discharge, no visible symptoms. I also have a very tight bladder neck. I had a bladder neck incision 10 years ago, peeing got a lot better, but now it's back to where it was, even I take Tamsulosin. At the time, the urologist told me "if you were 10 years older, i would have recommended TURP". (I am now 65) I went to 9 different doctors, got lots of antibiotics for STDs even STI PCR were all negative (done twice) and then the advice "nothing can be done". I then went to Dr Umaporn (recommended by Mike555 in the old thread), she did a prostate massage and found Klebsiella in the culure, sensitive to Levofloxacin. I have now taken Levofloxacin for 11 days, no real improvement so far. I will make an appointment with Dr Suntchai (also recommended by Mike555). The urologist at Bangkok Hospital who said nothing can be done suggested to see Dr Damrongpan there. He has a machine www.qrspelvicenter.net. Does anyone know anything about this? I would be very happy for any advice.

Taxis in Ubon are better (but that's really the only one I can think of)

Yes, maybe longer than you I know the problems you are talking about, but somehow they never bothered me so much. And for every time that I wanted to curse a taxi driver there were 2 times that I had to admit to myself that the driver was in the right and I was wrong.

I never use the apps. First, i value the small remnants of privacy we still have. I am happy to live in a country where not every move and every financial transaction is monitored like in the West. Second, i like to pay and support the guy who actually provides me the service. Why should I give 30 or 40% to the predatory financial bigwigs in California (Uber) or Singapore (Grab)? I am happy to give the full fare to the driver.

The red sign says "empty" (ว่าง). The green sign says "empty", too (ว่าง). The color doesn't mean anything. But the green ones tend to be newer cars.