On 1/29/2020 at 6:20 AM, Somtamnication said:

The also charge an additional 100b PER medicine prescribed. I always get the medicine list and go to Santi in Phuket T. for about 70% to 150% less.

150 % less? Do you get payed to take their products then?

On 1/28/2020 at 4:19 PM, xylophone said:

Went along to the hospital today to get a skin lesion checked out, as I do on a regular basis, what with being fair skinned and having worked in the Sahara desert for a few years, and saw the skin specialist for no more than five minutes

Just to follow-up on my original post about my skin lesion......... 

 

I was referred to the surgeon, this after the various creams I was given did nothing whatsoever, so he cut this lesion out, and it would have been about the size of my thumbnail, stitched my arm back up and sent me on my way, with an appointment for 10 days henceforth.

 

Went back yesterday and had the stitches removed and saw the biopsy report, which said it was a squamous cell carcinoma, and that the surgeon had successfully excised it all. I know it's not one of the deadliest of skin cancers, but it is a couple up from the most common one, and one to keep an eye on.

 

What surprised me was the speed at which it grew from nothing more than a light itch, about the size of an apple pip to something about the size of my thumbnail, in about five or six weeks!

 

So to all of you fair skinned farangs, don't overlook things like this, get them checked, just to be sure.