Its time for me to find a good doctor to help me watch after my health. I'm not looking for much: just and excellent doctor with a good command of English, low prices and his own clinic (I don't want to pay a commission to a hospital each time I see him) within a short motorbike ride of Udon Thani.

Can anybody recommend a doctor like this?

Its time for me to find a good doctor to help me watch after my health. I'm not looking for much: just and excellent doctor with a good command of English, low prices and his own clinic (I don't want to pay a commission to a hospital each time I see him) within a short motorbike ride of Udon Thani.

Can anybody recommend a doctor like this?

No idea about such in Udorn but suggest you post your Q to the Udon Map www site: http://udonmap.com/

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Its time for me to find a good doctor to help me watch after my health. I'm not looking for much: just and excellent doctor with a good command of English, low prices and his own clinic (I don't want to pay a commission to a hospital each time I see him) within a short motorbike ride of Udon Thani.

Can anybody recommend a doctor like this?

any pm response or any luck finding a dr.? i am in udon and looking for the same.

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any pm response or any luck finding a dr.? i am in udon and looking for the same.

I had posted first on udonmap.com and only received a recommendation for a doctor about an hour from here. Maybe he is closer to you, Robee, than to me.

http://www.udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/look...nic-t11186.html

Its difficult to believe that everybody is going to hospitals to have checkups, and so on. Maybe I am not asking the question correctly.

Actually in Thailand most outpatient care is provided by hospitals and clinics, it is not so common for doctors to have private practices apart from these like they do in the west.

So the question would be what hospitrals are convenient to you and which doctors there. Afraid I can't help much with regard to Udon Thani and thus far it doesn't seem anyoen else can either....

Should you be ill, the provinical hospital should be OK (if you don't speak Thai, bring along someone who does). You won't be able to choose your doctor there and won't see the saem one each time, though, so this is useful only for acute needs.

For annual physicals and overall health guidance, I'd suggest you combine it with a trip to Bangkok.

It seems that the operating model here is a bit different from that in the U.S. For example, (AFIK) the only way to drop in at a hospital and have something looked at is to visit the emergency room.

A friend in Bangkok has provided the name of a no-nonsense doctor at Bumrungrad, and I might wind up following up on that lead.

Its a little frustrating -when I drive around in the evening, I see lots of little free-standing clinics open for business, with lots of people waiting to see the doctor(s). They remind me of the small "Doc in a box" clinics in the U.S. I visited on, run by a heart specialist and was pleased, but he is a specialist. I visited a GP clinic and had to struggle mightily with the language, and had less than satisfactory results.

Maybe I did not phrase my question well. I am looking for an excellent English speaking doctor in a small (non-hospital) clinic in Udon. I will be most appreciative of any leads.