Lanna Hospital

[RxDan]

Anyone can give any review of lanna hospital in Chiangmai ?

Thanks

[Loaded]

Basic stuff OK but wouldn't trust it with anything serious. My wife had a serious misdiagnosis there.

[Ulysses G.]

It seems like pretty much every hospital make serious mistakes from time to time, but I have not heard a lot of rave reviews of Lanna, so would probably go elsewhere..

[Gonzo the Face]

I have been going to Lanna Hosp for 7 - 8 years now, for all types of visits.... from minor operations to monthly checks, and I personally rate it as the best hosp in CM. Certainily I rate it more professional than three of the others I have used, over the past 20 + years..

CM Ram , to me talks the talk but does not fill the bill overall...... or I should say does over fill the bill.

Lanna Hosp and staff AAA

Gonzo

Please consider this as a rave review

[barefoot1988]

i would say bad. went there in about 11pm to get pills for food poison but the doctor told me i had a good 70% of having appendicitis and need a mri scan and further hospitalization. freak out alittle and immediate thought was that i have toughen up as a man to be find the appendix pain to be very bearable.

after the mri scan, nothing, negative. mri scan seem to be the standard charges, well its expensive but the medicine prices are ridiculous. to round up, spent a chunk for nothing

next day still wasnt feeling very well, went to siamrad, the doctor who i consulted did some acupuncture. kind of freaky to see needles around my tummy and my ankle and even more freaky when it works and stop my aching nearly within minutes.

[elektrified]

Many of the same doctors that are the favorites of TV members at C.M. Ram, McCormick, etc. also practice at Lanna Hospital.

[uptheos]

Many of the same doctors that are the favorites of TV members at C.M. Ram, McCormick, etc. also practice at Lanna Hospital.

I think this demonstrates quite clearly, find the doctor you like and go where he/she practices. Just walking into any hospital and being pushed toward so and so, who you have no clue about can cause grief mentally, physically and financially. Obviously in an emergency this usually doesn't apply. However, I have found that once I use a doctor I like, they are more than willing to give me their mobile number, which can come in very handy if you are taken into emergency and can call a doctor that has dealt with you before (orthopaedics for example).

I don't know why some hospitals get put down, I'm sure Lanna is OK and Gonzo wouldn't go there for so long if it wasn't.

[likite]

I wouldn't take much notice of reviews here, especially about doctors and hospitals. I tried 2 private docs with practices in CM who were given glowing recommendations on TV and found them to be useless. One in particular in the Hang Dong area could be described as a fraud. Both overcharged like crazy.

Lanna over prescribe - nothing unusual - but make sure to ask what drug(s) they are prescribing and what they are supposed to achieve, before you get to the cashier.

Any doc or hospital here is first and fourmost a business.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

I have been going to Lanna Hosp for 7 - 8 years now, for all types of visits.... from minor operations to monthly checks, and I personally rate it as the best hosp in CM. Certainily I rate it more professional than three of the others I have used, over the past 20 + years..

Me too. Agree completely.

Please consider this as a rave review

+1

[Loaded]

Many of the same doctors that are the favorites of TV members at C.M. Ram, McCormick, etc. also practice at Lanna Hospital.

Would be interested to know who as the bill would be cheaper at Lanna and they are my national insurance hospital so many things are free.

[APA]

My wife went to Lanna for a medical and was told that she had a contagious disease. Went to CM Ram for a second opinion and it was nothing of the sort, Just a common cold. Wouldnt touch them with a barge pole!

[uptheos]

My wife went to Lanna for a medical and was told that she had a contagious disease. Went to CM Ram for a second opinion and it was nothing of the sort, Just a common cold. Wouldnt touch them with a barge pole!

A common cold is contagious.

[elektrified]

Many of the same doctors that are the favorites of TV members at C.M. Ram, McCormick, etc. also practice at Lanna Hospital.

Would be interested to know who as the bill would be cheaper at Lanna and they are my national insurance hospital so many things are free.

McCormick doesn't seem to mind revealing where the doctors that practice there can be found on others days of the week. That is how I found out the schedule for a doctor I was referred to. In fact they wrote down his hours at each place for me. He practices at McCormick, RAM and Rajavej on different days of the week. Otherwise you could ask the doctors where they practice. Dr. Siri at one time told me his schedule at his clinic, Sripat, and RAM and did point out that RAM would be the most expensive of the 3.

[Loaded]

Many of the same doctors that are the favorites of TV members at C.M. Ram, McCormick, etc. also practice at Lanna Hospital.

Would be interested to know who as the bill would be cheaper at Lanna and they are my national insurance hospital so many things are free.

McCormick doesn't seem to mind revealing where the doctors that practice there can be found on others days of the week. That is how I found out the schedule for a doctor I was referred to. In fact they wrote down his hours at each place for me. He practices at McCormick, RAM and Rajavej on different days of the week. Otherwise you could ask the doctors where they practice. Dr. Siri at one time told me his schedule at his clinic, Sripat, and RAM and did point out that RAM would be the most expensive of the 3.

Any practice at Lanna?

[alfieconn]

Certainly wouldn't recommend this hospital, 3 or 4 months ago the wife had a bad migraine and asked me to take her there as we were in the area, a long wait to see a doctor while some of the young nurses just stood around giggling, decided to keep her in one night with a 7,000 baht bill the next day and had to wait 2 hours for them to remove her drip.

Perhaps it's all a bit of a ploy but after seeing the bill i ended up with a headache.

Footnote : Even charged for the anti-bacterial gel that was placed in her room.

[ataloss]

'the bill would be cheaper at Lanna'

Hmmm...think again.

[Loaded]

'the bill would be cheaper at Lanna'

Hmmm...think again.

So, Lanna is more expensive than Ram? hard to believe me ol' china.

[uptheos]

'the bill would be cheaper at Lanna'

Hmmm...think again.

So, Lanna is more expensive than Ram? hard to believe me ol' china.

I can't say in general who is more expensive, but I can certainly vouch for alfieconn, who shared his experience with me the day it happened. It does seem that in this particular case Lanna probably was more expensive than Ram......go figure.

[Gonzo the Face]

I would ask all to consider that pricing and quality of care are really two separate issues. Part of the overall , but still separate.

I can accept that the prices at Lanna may have increased in the past year or so. I do also believe that if one were to check you may find that now Lanna, Ram , the old Chang Puek, and Tepanya (sic) hospitals are owned by the same owner. I beleive it is a doctors hospital group from Bangkok. Perhaps someone can confirm or dispute this. This may have some relation to increase prices in the others to match that of Ram. Like mini price fixing.

G

[chiangmaiexpat]

Lanna hospital was a mixed experience for us. Antibiotics typhoid fever therapy for my wife, including several days at the hospital, 30k+. I went there for dengue fever diagnosis and for rabies treatment. Diagnostics OK for common conditions and common cases. I was a bit disappointed with the pediatrics dept. and won't go there anymore with our kids. Generally not good value for money and -like almost any other hospital in Thailand- they have a tendency to overprescribe meds which cost on average 150% of the regular drugstore retail price.

Cheers, CMX

[WinnieTheKhwai]

On the topic of expensive meds, doesn't anyone else tell the doctor to not prescribe stuff but ask the med name and them go buy it at a pharmacy?

Then you just have the doctor's fee to worry about which is low. Doesn't matter if it's Lanna hospital or Bummygrad in Bangkok, you can easily consult a top doctor and walk out of there having spent only a couple hundred baht.

I would think that's as common in Thailand as, say, bringing your own booze into a bar? Or do you all just sit there meekly paying top dollar for stuff, and then whine about it later? That's not very productive..

[onthedarkside]

On the topic of expensive meds, doesn't anyone else tell the doctor to not prescribe stuff but ask the med name and them go buy it at a pharmacy?

I always get the hospital to write down the medicine name and go to the pharmacy. Save lots of money.

[likite]

Which hospital writes down the medicine so you can go to an outside pharmacy?

[Tywais]

Which hospital writes down the medicine so you can go to an outside pharmacy?

May depend on the doctor but one of mine at Chiang Mai Ram even recommended I purchase them at a pharmacy and gave me the list I needed.

[Puwa]

In my experience, the problem with all hospitals in Thailand is consistency. Good treatment at Ram today, bad treatment tomorrow. One guy is happy with Lanna, another hates it. Why the variance, besides personal preference or quality of doctors? I think it's because in general Thais don't take systems seriously--systems, protocols, rules, procedures. These are the backbone of any good hospital or medical service. Without these, we're left with a guess rather than a diagnosis, recourse to the easiest solution rather than the best, etc.

[elektrified]

On the topic of expensive meds, doesn't anyone else tell the doctor to not prescribe stuff but ask the med name and them go buy it at a pharmacy?

I always get the hospital to write down the medicine name and go to the pharmacy. Save lots of money.

Me too.

[uptheos]

On the topic of expensive meds, doesn't anyone else tell the doctor to not prescribe stuff but ask the med name and them go buy it at a pharmacy?

I always get the hospital to write down the medicine name and go to the pharmacy. Save lots of money.

Me too.

Yep, never been refused yet.