Oncologist Recommendation

[mokwit]

My Oncologist is a lovely caring lady, but my Thai is not good enough and I need to ask some very direct questions of a specialist WRT continuing with Chemo or stopping, or at least stopping Oxaliplatin.

 

Looking for a recommendation for a Bangkok located, native speaker level English, and graduate overseas*. Actual Thai Nationality is fine.

 

*The key point here is not "better" or not, but same wavelength - when I talk with a US qualified friend we know what we are getting at as we come at things from the same angle. Same with UK graduated Thai surgeon.

Edited March 10, 2023 by mokwit

[MJCM]

Location would help

[mokwit]

Indeed it would, Bangkok. Edited OP.

Edited March 10, 2023 by mokwit

[hellohello]

I can recommend a great one in Chaing mai at ram. I fly to see her : Dr Rattiya Cheewakriangkrai,  She even studied at Mayo Clinic.   hope somebody gets you some more local answers quick.    

 

Oxaliplatin sucks.  

[Sheryl]

https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/doctor/dr-potjana-jitawatanarat

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Tanawat-Jirakulaporn

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Harit-Suwanrusme

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Suthida-Suwanvecho

 

https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/doctor/dr-bundarika-suwanawiboon

 

The first listed doctor's US training was the most recent (2014) and I find that is important.Lots of Thai doctors here  who trained abroad many decades ago, they tend to get un-acculturated after a while. Also may or may not keep up to date.

 

 

 

 

[mokwit]

1 hour ago, hellohello said:

Oxaliplatin sucks.  

Worse than that I am not sure it even does anything [much] - at least not enough to offset the damage it does you. If I had known then what I know now I would have avoided it or stopped after 4 sessions before the accumulation damage starts- no difference in effect according to some research. 

Edited March 10, 2023 by mokwit

[hellohello]

1 hour ago, mokwit said:

Worse than that I am not sure it even does anything [much] - at least not enough to offset the damage it does you. If I had known then what I know now I would have avoided it or stopped after 4 sessions before the accumulation damage starts- no difference in effect according to some research. 

yup. I refused it after finding a study that it would only benefit me about 5%, I was lucky to find a friend who showed me that study.  reach out in a pm if you wish. take care.

[ayahuasca]

On 3/10/2023 at 5:27 PM, Sheryl said:

https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/doctor/dr-potjana-jitawatanarat

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Tanawat-Jirakulaporn

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Harit-Suwanrusme

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Suthida-Suwanvecho

 

https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/doctor/dr-bundarika-suwanawiboon

 

The first listed doctor's US training was the most recent (2014) and I find that is important.Lots of Thai doctors here  who trained abroad many decades ago, they tend to get un-acculturated after a while. Also may or may not keep up to date.

 

 

Only one of those MD's has kept their american board certification current--meaning they have proof of keeping up to date on current research and techniques. And I suggest that that is more import than when they last were in the U.S. for training or schooling. You can check board certification's online. Many of the thai docs (and other developing world docs) go for the brief trainings or seminar in the U.S. or Europe then add that to their credentials. Hopefully that's obvious to most of you.