Dear Ladies (And Gentelman) - Your Opinion Please!

[mika561]

Dear Forum friends,

A topic which i am sure that has been discussed already - yet the latest thread about this topic is over 2 years ago (At least the one i could find) so it's not very relavent - that is why I am asking for your help again.

I recently found out I am pregnent and I am looking for a good doctor that will be able to provide proffetional care for the next 9 months.

I know the hospitals in the Island quite well (unfortuanatly) so facility-wise im ok, but doctor wise i have no clue.

Does anyone here has a real recomandation about a doctor who i can realy trust? if you had any experience with a doctor or heard about a good doctor PLEASE feel free to share.... any information will help me out a lot.....

Thank you all soooooo very much!!!!!

[Boater]

welcome to Thaivisa, and congrats on the forth coming baby

i am sure you will receive plenty of feedback , both posative and negative .

[limbos]

In Nathon, on the way to the Government hospital, just passed the bus stop place for the buses to Bangkok, right hand side of the road coming from Nathon is a good female doctor/gynecologist, unfortunately forgot her name but my wife is very pleased with her service. This is her private practice but she also works in the Nathon hospital.

[mika561]

Hi thanks for the quick reply!

is it doctor Rapheephan by any chance?? the one in Nathon?

[Rooo]

There was also some discussion here.

[joe84330]

each of the girls i know goes to dr. pisanu on the nathon beach road. not far from the siam commercial bank.

[mika561]

There was also some discussion here.

Thanks rooo!!!! that's a LOT of info exactly what i needed!!!!!!!!

So after spending the last 30 min reading all the threads, my conclusions are:

1) thank god i am just in the begining of the pregnancy and have time to decide about where to give birth!!!!!!!!!!!

2) From what i understand the pre-care is quite fine in any hospital (Thai inter, samui inter, nathon and bangkok hospital) , it the "birth part" that is the problem..... so probably be planning a trip to bangkok in a few months to check some hospitals to do the birth in... lucky it falls right on the low season

if somone has any suggestion where is a good hospital or doctor to do the pre-care in samui but not necceraly to do the birth itself - feel very free to share.....

[BasementCat]

Congratulations mika561!

I've been to a female gynecologist in Bangkok Samui a couple of times before, not really pleased with her qualification and (secondly) language skills. So I switched to Dr. Boonliang in Thai Inter hospital, and he has been great monitoring my pregnancy so far. If I lived closer to Nathon, I'd consider the clinic pp recommended.

[mika561]

Congratulations mika561!

I've been to a female gynecologist in Bangkok Samui a couple of times before, not really pleased with her qualification and (secondly) language skills. So I switched to Dr. Boonliang in Thai Inter hospital, and he has been great monitoring my pregnancy so far. If I lived closer to Nathon, I'd consider the clinic pp recommended.

Thanks basementcat!!!!

yeah I know the doctor you are reffuring to.. . a few months ago my sister was visiting and had a "women's problem" and needed a gynecologist ,so she rang her insurance company and they said this issue would be defenitly covered so i told her go to bangkok samui - hey if she's covered by the insurance - why not??

The staff itself looked like they know what they are doing, but the doctor was very difficult to comunicate, and instead of making an affort to understand her better she just gigglled, throughtout the whole exam she was talking to the other nurses who were in the room and also laughing about somthing..overall she seems nice but we were looking for "proffetional" and "attentive"

needless to say it the whole thing was very unproffetional, i wouldn't go to her again for a check up, let alone for a pregnancy care....

[BigC]

In Nathon, on the way to the Government hospital, just passed the bus stop place for the buses to Bangkok, right hand side of the road coming from Nathon is a good female doctor/gynecologist, unfortunately forgot her name but my wife is very pleased with her service. This is her private practice but she also works in the Nathon hospital.

yes i am in the process now. u might see the same doctor who is going to see you through from beginning to the end. the clinic in nathong specialises in babies. u have to go a puck a number. i got there 2 hours early and got number 17.

there office is open 8-12 then 5 pm to 7 pm.

i used to use another hospital till i found out that they do not deliver.

Bangkok hospital seems like because u pay more u get more. this is not the case. they try to make u have operations that u don't need is because they can charge u more. like push the mother into having ceasarian when they don't even need it.

Congratulations.

once u have been to nathong for the first time then it is plan sailing from there.

good luck

Edited November 19, 2010 by Rooo
Edited some spelling for easier comprehention.

[BasementCat]

Rooo, BigC's spelling is contagious! I would not expect 'comprehention' from you under different circumstances.

[mika561]

In Nathon, on the way to the Government hospital, just passed the bus stop place for the buses to Bangkok, right hand side of the road coming from Nathon is a good female doctor/gynecologist, unfortunately forgot her name but my wife is very pleased with her service. This is her private practice but she also works in the Nathon hospital.

yes i am in the process now. u might see the same doctor who is going to see you through from beginning to the end. the clinic in nathong specialises in babies. u have to go a puck a number. i got there 2 hours early and got number 17.

there office is open 8-12 then 5 pm to 7 pm.

i used to use another hospital till i found out that they do not deliver.

Bangkok hospital seems like because u pay more u get more. this is not the case. they try to make u have operations that u don't need is because they can charge u more. like push the mother into having ceasarian when they don't even need it.

Congratulations.

once u have been to nathong for the first time then it is plan sailing from there.

good luck

Big C I agree about bangkok hospital, it is sad how it works with money over there,

I didn't undersrand: you mean you are going to Nathon Hospital or to the privet clinic in Nathon? is it the same doctor who is working in the clinic also works in the hospital?

[limbos]

Yes, many doctors who have clinics in Nathon work also in the Nathon hospital.

[NALAK]

no doctor worth there salt will be working in Samui, they are usually on the way up or on the way down, they work for money and the money is in Bangkok not Samui. best get as much done in bangkok as you can you will see the difference the minute you walk through the door. friend of mine had routine birth in Nathon and his wife died. 100% doctors fault, he tried for 2 years to sue doctor, gave up and returned to UK with his child.

[BigC]

no doctor worth there salt will be working in Samui, they are usually on the way up or on the way down, they work for money and the money is in Bangkok not Samui. best get as much done in bangkok as you can you will see the difference the minute you walk through the door. friend of mine had routine birth in Nathon and his wife died. 100% doctors fault, he tried for 2 years to sue doctor, gave up and returned to UK with his child.

i know what u mean and i know who u mean. it was a very sad story. when a mechanic makes a mistake they can take the car back to the shop and re fix it. not the same with the human body.

this case i know. the doctor made a terrrible mistake. I am also slightly worried about this but i have herd stories o this same thing happening in all places in the world fro bangkok to london.

The doctor is a specialist in babies and i have seen the que of people that he deals with every day. i know it sounds bad but the statics are very low that the same thing will happen again.

in any case of where u decide to go. u must see the same doctor through out the pregnancy that is going to deliver. it is no good going to another hospital that doesnt specialise in babys then getting a written report to give to another doctor who has not seen u before till the birth.

also R.I.P to the friend that was lost in a terrible acccident.

[mika561]

no doctor worth there salt will be working in Samui, they are usually on the way up or on the way down, they work for money and the money is in Bangkok not Samui. best get as much done in bangkok as you can you will see the difference the minute you walk through the door. friend of mine had routine birth in Nathon and his wife died. 100% doctors fault, he tried for 2 years to sue doctor, gave up and returned to UK with his child.

i know what u mean and i know who u mean. it was a very sad story. when a mechanic makes a mistake they can take the car back to the shop and re fix it. not the same with the human body.

this case i know. the doctor made a terrrible mistake. I am also slightly worried about this but i have herd stories o this same thing happening in all places in the world fro bangkok to london.

The doctor is a specialist in babies and i have seen the que of people that he deals with every day. i know it sounds bad but the statics are very low that the same thing will happen again.

in any case of where u decide to go. u must see the same doctor through out the pregnancy that is going to deliver. it is no good going to another hospital that doesnt specialise in babys then getting a written report to give to another doctor who has not seen u before till the birth.

also R.I.P to the friend that was lost in a terrible acccident.

Thank you all for the replies - I went to see the doctor at the private nathon clinic - she was absaloutly amazing - were attantive, spoke english very well, and very proffetional... Thank you guys for your time it helped a lot!

Edited November 22, 2010 by Rooo
Changed Font size to fit in with TV.

[joe84330]

mika, specifically which doctor at which private clinic did you see?

[mika561]

mika, specifically which doctor at which private clinic did you see?

It's Dr. Rapheephan ( i hope i wrote her name right)...... and its the private clinic in nathon, it is a little before you turn right to the imegration, after the big market, on the right side

Edited November 22, 2010 by mika561

[surayu]

planning a trip to bangkok in a few months to check some hospitals

I can reccomend the public hospital located in Victory Monument (Bkk), i forgot the name, but i have been highly impressed by the very skillfull approach from the senior doctors working in there, i offered to take my friend there as i was very curious to see how the public hospitals are working in Thailand, as soon as my friend (a THAI national) asked the old lady about what she would have to do about her sickness, this lovely person started shouting (yes shouting, with roughly 300 people waiting to be seen in the hall) "we don't have anything here for you, we cannot treath you here, you cannot come to this hospital for this..." and so on, that's great don't you think? i am sure this doctor, knowing of her hospital lacks, immediately thought about letting all other people there to know about the problem, so if anybody was having relevant information they could help, unfortunately no other suggestion was made on this istance, but you got to admire this thai way to deal with problems, in the west you can only dream about it but we are moving forward to gain the same consistency, day by day

Edit: added "to know" so it makes more sense now

Edited November 22, 2010 by surayu

[joe84330]

thank you, i'll keep that one in mind.

[nocturn]

In Nathon, on the way to the Government hospital, just passed the bus stop place for the buses to Bangkok, right hand side of the road coming from Nathon is a good female doctor/gynecologist, unfortunately forgot her name but my wife is very pleased with her service. This is her private practice but she also works in the Nathon hospital.

yes i am in the process now. u might see the same doctor who is going to see you through from beginning to the end. the clinic in nathong specialises in babies. u have to go a puck a number. i got there 2 hours early and got number 17.

there office is open 8-12 then 5 pm to 7 pm.

i used to use another hospital till i found out that they do not deliver.

Bangkok hospital seems like because u pay more u get more. this is not the case. they try to make u have operations that u don't need is because they can charge u more. like push the mother into having ceasarian when they don't even need it.

Congratulations.

once u have been to nathong for the first time then it is plan sailing from there.

good luck

you would be pretty hard pressed to find care in thailand that didn't push for ceasarian sections. it is standard practice here.

[BasementCat]

you would be pretty hard pressed to find care in thailand that didn't push for ceasarian sections. it is standard practice here.

That's true, but not only in Thailand - China, Brazil and US to name but a few. The problem is that hospitals here will not openly give their statistics. It is though possible to ask different departments of the same hospital: (1) plain number of C-section deliveries, and (2) total number of deliveries in a given month. This simple investigation gives almost 90 pct c-section rate in one of high-end BKK hospitals, or so I was recently told. Meanwhile, a normal C-section rate (i.e. cut only when medically necessary) is claimed by WHO to be 10-15 pct.

This is a well-known problem, the reasons behind are time and cost. Not safety. This is also understandable. A mom-to-be just should be aware and try to find a doctor according to her personal preferences. After all, some women (especially Thai) want a C-section because they think it's best.