Family get shock bill - 40,000 baht for nothing more than paracetamol

[richard_smith237]

4 minutes ago, billd766 said:

If I go to the state hospital the prices are quite reasonable and if the meds are restricted to hospital issue only then I would be quite happy to pay their price.

 

Private hospital prices? No way.

If I go to a private hospice (I.e Samitivej) for an ear infection etc the bill is about 1500 baht - no excessive & I just get the name of the med required and go to an outside pharmacy. 
I don’t mind that cos it’s less waiting. 
 

But, I still wonder what level of ‘padding’ was applied to thus 10,049 baht (per person bill) if they didn’t even stay overnight.,

If they had a PCR test, surely that world have been itemized.

 

The vague bill is suspicious and definitely worth questioning. 

[Lacessit]

9 minutes ago, billd766 said:

If I go to the state hospital the prices are quite reasonable and if the meds are restricted to hospital issue only then I would be quite happy to pay their price.

 

Private hospital prices? No way.

Fortunately, my meds are available at any pharmacy.

While I know opioids are prohibited in Thailand, it does seem to be remarkably cruel to be giving terminal cancer patients nothing but Tylenol for pain relief. Given the Golden Triangle has produced so much opium in days of yore.

[spidermike007]

7 hours ago, billd766 said:

He stood up for his wife.  Good for him.

 

Something that few people do nowadays.

 

If the idiot who made the bad/insensitive insult (it was no joke but a serious insult) had been flattened by Will Smith I would have been Will Smith's cheerleader all the way.

Is this the 17th century? Have you ever seen a comedy roast? This was humor. Nobody has protected status. He could have said something a bit classier. His outburst was so far over the top, and inviting himself up onto the stage was beyond juvenile. 

 

He should be banned from the Oscars for life. He is a thug. 

[connda]

Wow.  That skin lightening cream must have worked wayyyyy to well.

[malthebluff]

This will make people to Afraid to report they have covid and thus will suit the government and the statistics they like to publicise of very low covid cases with the only covid that's here coming  from dirty farangs so its them to blame for the high cost of your treatment 

[billd766]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Is this the 17th century? Have you ever seen a comedy roast? This was humor. Nobody has protected status. He could have said something a bit classier. His outburst was so far over the top, and inviting himself up onto the stage was beyond juvenile. 

 

He should be banned from the Oscars for life. He is a thug. 

I disagree with you on this. If he was just taking the p1ss out of Will Smith alone, but picking on the wife just to get a laugh is way over the top and doesn't work for me.

 

I don't think Will Smith is a thug, I think he was sticking up for his, wife, partner and friend, so good for him.

[vidgra]

The only right thing to do is stay home and shut up ! how can people be so idiot to inform any of the official scammers ? maybe old wear foreigners who just deserve what happens to them for having no face ?

 

 

[SomchaiCNX]

On 3/29/2022 at 7:54 PM, hioctane said:

So now everyone thinks doctors are free. They pay all that money to go through medical school and they shouldn’t be paid.

Sorry but not in Thailand, in return they have to serve in a public hospital or pay a fine (around 800 K) result is that you have less doctors in rural areas. In most countries in Europe they do not pay their education like in the States. In Belgium you have the Dutch who come to study at Flemish universities after missing the tests in the Netherlands. In the French speaking part you have a lot of French who come to study and they do not pay a cent more than the locals and get support and grants as well. In some Scandinavian countries they invite foreigners to come and study for free.  The whole money making business in Thai hospitals is clearly copied from the US.

[jacko45k]

On 3/29/2022 at 10:28 AM, webfact said:

and 59 for the paracetamol.

Actually they got off cheaply. I was given some painkillers by a well known local hospital. They saw fit to disguise the name, it wasn't Sa-Ra nor Tylenol, but I looked it up and of course it was just paracetamol. I wish it had been 59 baht!

Many hospitals are specialists in 'shock' bills. 

Edited April 1, 2022 by jacko45k

[WEBBYB808]

Must of had to pay the foriegners  price of 3,500 THB per certificate,  and then the 1800-2000 thb for the covid test, per person, then .59 thb each for meds.  I dont know why it would be 10k per, 5k I get.  But alas isnt medical free for locals?