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I was back in Australia at Christmas. I had three biopsies after carrying out a skin check. I think the skin check cost $180 excluding rebate if you have medicare. Less than $100 for me. Since I have come back to Thailand I have been informed one of them is a melanoma and two are pre-melanomas. All three need to be cut out with the melanoma needing to be done with urgency. I have been weighing up options of what to do. Right now I can't see flights for less than $1000. The cost to cut out is $350 each, so that's another $1000.Depending on your personal circumstance it could be another couple $k in expenses while there. So min 50k baht to fly back to Australia in my case excluding any other costs and loss of income etc. I dont have health insurance to cover any of the costs in Thailand. Does Dr Anna do surgery herself? If so, dependent on the urgency and her schedule and she is very highly regarding then it would make sense to get it done with her, surely? Im just off the phone with my Australia doctor today and he said the hardest part is to recognise that there is an issue in the first place. The surgery after that should be the easier part for any surgeon with experience in skin cancer issues/surgeries. I am booked into Samitivej for an appointment this weekend. I have been given a recommendation for Dr Pamela at Bumrungrad, link below. She has western experience. Bumrungrad have not responded while Samitivej has been very responsive. https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Pamela-Chayavichitsilp Reading the reviews on both hospitals on google, this checks out that Bumrungrad in general see patients as walking ATMs that they want to extract the most money from. Would be interesting to hear experience of others who have needed these types of check ups and surgeries and how they found it