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He was commenting on the sentence "Thais ridiculous propensity to keep building the same shops next to each" I do think that's a racist comment. Building the same shops next to each other is very common all over Asia, and I gave already examples of the same thing in the US and in Europe. It has nothing to do with Thais, nor is it ridiculous. Disclaimer: I am not Hammer. I am not English. I am not Thai. I am not woke (don't even know, what exactly that is)

It depends, the decision is made by lowly clerical admin staff and nurses. There is little consistency. Several years back, a rich Canadian was brought to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital unconscious. They didn't know he could pay. Nevertheless, they stabilized him and did quite a lot (as far as I remember, even a CT scan). Then they sent him to his death, to the government hospital. Shortly afterwards, a "Pattaya expat" (you know the type) arrived. He showed his European Social Security Card and insisted that he was entitled to treatment (of course he wasn't). Staff couldn't stomach sending away a 2nd patient and he got actually treated. No idea, if and how the hospital later got any money. Mostly it works the way Sheryl described.

Care to elaborate?

If it's a superficial infection of the skin or the underlying tissue near the skin, get Augmentin (generic name: Amoxicillin+Clavulanic acid, many brands, AMK is one of the cheaper ones, 10 tablets of 1g about 150 baht). Preferably buy it from a pharmacy with a real pharmacist (not just a salesperson) and show him/her your infection. Otherwise, see a doctor.

Pete is coming Nov 4, together with Ian and 2 other friends. Ulla is coming Nov 3, with her bf. K. is not yet sure, October or January. Chris maybe in December. But that's not sure. Klas was here in May with his wife. Oli's parents were here last month. Jog is here right now, in Krabi. These are just friends of mine. My former company is tourism-related. Their numbers for July 2022 for Europeans are 20% lower than 2019. Chinese and Taiwanese are still missing, Hong Kongers are starting to come.

The title of your thread is old news, and, unfortunately, true. Your sentence about seniors is your invention and a lie. Few people have a relapse.

In many towns in Western Europe, you find an area where their supermarkets are clustered together. A parking lot surrounded by 5 supermarkets all selling similar stuff. In the strips outside US towns, there is McDonalds followed by a Burger King followed by a Wendys, a Harveys, whatever. Western European cities have whole streets where there is one restaurant after the other, often serving similar food. BTW I am not Hammer, we aren't even from the same continent.

Bernhard Trink said: the tourists always come. They came back after Sars, after every putsch, after the Bangkok floods, after the financial crises of 1997 and 2008, they always come. They happily pay every price. Farang find a room for 2000 cheap. You charge them 400 for a waterless waterfall called "national park" - they pay. There is a thread about the LTR visa - many people find it a good deal. There is no limit for the price foreigners are willing to pay to come to Thailand. Thais know that. You kill them, like in Koh Tao. Their brothers and sisters will still come.

There are markets in "Western practices", whatever that may mean (Australia is in the East, or in the West?). In the US I have been to something they called "farmers market". All foodstuff. In Germany I have been to the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, all fruits and vegetables. In Italy, there are many mercati. They even have fish markets, all they sell is fish, would you believe it! No place for Hammer's carburator.

Surprised. You often sound very reasonable.

Today the Bangkok Post reports of a Hong Konger kidnapped in Thailand and forced to work in Myanmar. It's getting dangerous for young people of Chinese ethnicity to travel to SEA, including to Thailand.

So did they flush the toilets in the meantime? Last time i checked they hadn't.

Which unit? If it's mg/l that's hardly "positive" at all. Anyway, isolated elevated d-dimeres don't mean anything. It depends on the context: clinical symptoms, other lab values are much more important. You really have to discuss the whole picture with the doctor.

I thought so, but I hear a lot of Mandarin lately. One thriving business here are Chinese (and Taiwanese) gangs trafficking young, naive job-seeking Taiwanese (and Hong Kongers) to Cambodia and Thailand. They are forced to work in call centers for scam calls to China/HK/Taiwan. Thousands of them. Now, why are these call centers in Cambodia and Thailand?

I thought so, but I hear a lot of Mandarin lately. One thriving business here are Chinese (and Taiwanese) gangs trafficking young, naive job-seeking Taiwanese (and Hong Kongers) to Cambodia and Thailand. They are forced to work in call centers for scam calls to China/HK/Taiwan. Thousands of them. Now, why are these call centers in Cambodia and Thailand?

There is a very helpful website which will analyse your phone number. For example, a friends number had the digits 70 which obviously would make her prone to get cancer of the uterus. Other digits were dangerous, too. Fortunately, the website was able to sell her a much better number for only 6600 baht. She feels safe now.

Tiktok has some much better and realistic videos about them, not like the "eco-tourism" exploitative kitsch you find about them on you tube

Are there any updates on this?

Oh. You were lucky that your hip "warned" you about this problem. Could have easily resulted in a life-threatening hemorrhage somewhere else.

Siriraj is not cheap for foreigners. Government hospitals have double pricing. Their private arm has prices slightly (10%) cheaper than Bumrungrad. The public arm may very well charge almost the same prices if you are a foreigner. A recent example was 650,000 for aortic valve replacement for a destitute American (TGF paid), which in Bangkok Hospital would have cost 800,000.

There was a discussion in the local business community whether double pricing would be a good idea. The chamber of commerce (if I remember correctly) than published an official decision to double-price foreigners (there were no Chinese tourists at the time, foreigners were farang). Much later, they drove their point home to me when I was double-priced for a cone of ice-cream, it is as ridiculous as it is disgusting. I avoid that place, but I suspect that nowadays 7/11 doesn't have double pricing in Huahin. Wouldn't surprise me, though.

that's another nice one. They have a poor reputation inside BDMS (their parent). Which again may have to do with the culture of Huahin: decades of history towards farang (enshrined in an official document from the eighties), decades of sloppy medicine.

GF wants to take albendazole because her anus is itching. Mine has been itching for weeks, too. I would rather take tablets only after a stool exam. But that costs a couple of thousands and a whole day. Albendazole is just 35 baht and not really dangerous. But there are many regimens of albendazole, depending on which kind of worm. What kind of worms are Thais actually suspecting? How many days do they take albendazole? On the farm, they take it every 6 months. I am not going to do this, for sure.

Don't we learn on TV that all Thais are the same stupid and follow communal pressure, that's why they all wear a mask? But in the 7/11 they wouldn't know you are Thai, they would think "just another dirty farang as Anutin said" So you surreptiously make us non-Thais lose face...

Very unusual. Usually they will ask for a deposit of 50,000 or 80,000 baht, even if they know that the final bill will be much higher. I have once heard of a 500,000 baht deposit, never heard of more. Was it Bangkok Pattaya hospital? Due to the prevailing culture in this resort and due to their fine selection of clientele, they have less scruples.