British football coach, 32, fights for life in Thai hospital against severe lung infection

[ChaiyaTH]

This Pneumonia stuff seems to happen for a few months already, before the corona virus came out. Got something nasty myself too and was given anti biotics to fix it.

Know of many people that were ill for a long time and quite serious, wonder what it really is. Seems very different from the traditional flu stuff.

[Sheryl]

23 hours ago, Airalee said:

Chiang Mai Ram Hospital room rates including services.  Cannot see how a hospital in Pattaya can be so much more expensive.

 

฿6000 + doctors fees vs ฿80,000

 

Questionable reporting.

 
 

 

Not in the least. Room rates are a negligible patt of total hospitalization costs. It literally appmies to just use of the room. Every single treatment, every supply or equipment used, every procedure done, medications, IVs etc are all additional to this. As are all the doctor fees.

 

Not at all unusual for someone in his condition to be running up bills in excess og 60,000 baht a day.

 

Looking at a schedule of room rates tells you nothing.

[URMySunshine]

 

[sweatalot]

2 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Why should they do that when they had already specifically stated that it is pneumonia?

To make it clear, pneumonia is an infection of the lung. That is all the name says. It can be caused by many kinds of germs, virus, bacteria, pneumokokkes, camphylobacter. legionella, fungi .... It is always called pneumonia. 

If you call a lung infection a pneumonia it can be each of these. A pneumnonia caused by infection with Covid 19 or, ...or. Specifically stated as pneumonia does not say anything about cause

Edited February 25, 2020 by sweatalot

[steven100]

3 hours ago, Just Weird said:

It's likely that they did test and do know that it's pneumonia.

thanks ... hope he get over it but it will obviously take weeks ..

 

[ChaiyaTH]

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Not in the least. Room rates are a negligible patt of total hospitalization costs. It literally appmies to just use of the room. Every single treatment, every supply or equipment used, every procedure done, medications, IVs etc are all additional to this. As are all the doctor fees.

 

Not at all unusual for someone in his condition to be running up bills in excess og 60,000 baht a day.

 

Looking at a schedule of room rates tells you nothing.

Yeah that is so true, I had my wife in for 3 nights and expected a much lower bill. Everything aside of the room rate comes on top and that goes really fast.
Just for some small things that you can't avoid the room rate is easily 2K higher already. 'False' advertising with those brochures.

If he was in ICU the nursing fees could be 2 people * 3 shifts * 2,500 = 15,000 additional costs already. Kept in a coma add 20,000 for specialists.
ICU Room 7,000. 42K already. Still not talking about all doctors and other specialists on the background. 

Edited February 25, 2020 by ChaiyaTH

[Sheryl]

15 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Yeah that is so true, I had my wife in for 3 nights and expected a much lower bill. Everything aside of the room rate comes on top and that goes really fast.
Just for some small things that you can't avoid the room rate is easily 2K higher already. 'False' advertising with those brochures.

If he was in ICU the nursing fees could be 2 people * 3 shifts * 2,500 = 15,000 additional costs already. Kept in a coma add 20,000 for specialists.
ICU Room 7,000. 42K already. Still not talking about all doctors and other specialists on the background. 

 

And the use of a ventilator, very expensive. respiratory therapy treatments. Medication.

 

It is not false advertising in the brochures. It is lack of knowledge of how hospital bills are structured on the part of people unfamiliar with fee-for-service care. Nowhere in the brochure does it say or imply that room rates are inclusive of medical care and no one would expect anyone to make such an odd assumption.

 

They list room rates with pictures etc in brochure because unlike just about everything else this has optional features - you don't choose your medications, surgery etc out of a brochure but you can opt for one room over another.

 

 

[Bell1234]

22 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Not in the least. Room rates are a negligible patt of total hospitalization costs. It literally appmies to just use of the room. Every single treatment, every supply or equipment used, every procedure done, medications, IVs etc are all additional to this. As are all the doctor fees.

 

Not at all unusual for someone in his condition to be running up bills in excess og 60,000 baht a day.

 

Looking at a schedule of room rates tells you nothing.

It cost you everytime the Nurse comes into your room to do a Blood pressure check or anything else.. I would be doing the pressure check myself it's a total con.

[gk10002000]

On 2/23/2020 at 10:27 PM, webfact said:

Mark's friend Richard Sanderson, who regularly travels to Thailand to see Mark, said: "He's in a really bad way.

 

"Everyone is in bits and can't believe what's happening.

What was his lifestyle?  HIV interaction now complications triggered by the flu virus?

[jacko45k]

14 hours ago, Bell1234 said:

It cost you everytime the Nurse comes into your room to do a Blood pressure check or anything else.. I would be doing the pressure check myself it's a total con.

I was visiting a pal at one of the bigger hospitals here when in came a cute little doctor and he went nuts. He had actually got back from 3 months offshore and gone on onehelluva bender and made himself ill. He complained they had sent various doctors there jumping on the bandwagon and each adding to his bill. The poor cute doctor was a nutritionist  who had come to advise him on diet after his blood count showed some dodgy results.... in reality cause by a diet of mainly Bombay Sapphire gin. 

He said they will bleed you dry in here!

[Cheesekraft]

how is he doing? did he get tested for coronavirus?