I'm wondering if anyone can help me to find a high level person to sit with me and my girlfriends parents and translate the conversation for me. My girlfriend was involved in a serious bicycle accident and may need brain surgery. The ambulence took her to Suan Doc and her parents might be considering moving her to another hospital if she needs the surgery or possibly for consultation. I need to know exactly what they are thinking and planning. They don't speak any English at all and I am not proficient in Thai.

Please help me ASAP if you can provide me with a person and a phone number.

What a time for an accident.

Will be glad to assist at no cost to you whatsoever.

I am proficient to translate at court level. zero eight nine one nine seven one nine one nine.

What a time for an accident.

Will be glad to assist at no cost to you whatsoever.

I am proficient to translate at court level. zero eight nine one nine seven one nine one nine.

Lucky that you have mkawish's kind offer of help! Aside, please move her from Suan Doc hospital. I know that they are cheap but they are incapable. My friend was there last week after getting hit with a car. Suan Doc released him after one day even though they hadn't really treated him

(they didn't even clean the dried blood from him, too busy, they said) and he could not even drink water by himself let alone stand up or walk. We got him moved Sriphat opposite where they took him immediately to Intensive Care with several (previously unnoticed) injuries and internal bleeding. Please move her!

My friend is OK now. I hope your girlfriend will be too! Goodluck!

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun Fearless1,

Very sorry to hear of this tragic event, and delighted to see Khun MkAWish's reply.

Would like to disagree, respectfully, with Khun Krupnik's appraisal of Suan Dok Hospital (the official name is Maharaj Nakorn). First: all hospitals make mistakes. You'll find plenty of stories of major mistakes by even the hospitals in Chiang Mai considered best by most farangs (like Chiang Mai Ram) on this forum.

Second, Maharaj Hospital is connected with the medical school associated with CMU: with luck, and guidance and translation assitsance, hopefully from someone like MkAWish, you may get a specialist who is a professor at the medical school, and trained and board certified in Europe, or the US. Many of these same top specialists will also "moonlight" over at Chiang Ram, and other local hospitals, but those hospitals will charge so much more for their services.

We've just had a farang friend of ours have successful, major open-heart surgery at Maharaj: we've had treatment for cancer at Maharaj, where Thailand's number one radiation oncologist (American trained and board-certified) supervised our treatment. And our treatment at Maharaj, reviewed by an American oncologist was rated "grade A+" by the senior American oncologist.

If you have the financial resources, would suggest you consult with Maharaj's "Sriphat" administrative unit which is the "gateway" for farangs receiving first-class treatment. Note this is a bit confusing because one of the hospital buildings is also named 'Sriphat.

If you can afford it, having your lady friend receive the "farang class" treatment might be best.

Also, hopefully, other CM TV members will chime in here with suggestions.

best, ~o:37;

Kudos to

mkawish

To be there no questions asked.

That is the finest thing a man or women can do. :jap:

Speak, Read and Write Thai to a very good standard. Can help you out if you need it. Just contact me here.

Also the statement that Suan Dok Hospital is not the place to be getting your g/f treated [in my opinion] is far from correct. All the best surgens/ doctors in Chiang Mai work there.

Best wish for you in this difficult time and if you need my help then let me know.