Australian traveller tells of his holiday nightmare in Thailand

[louse1953]

Travel insurance is the moral of the story.

Isn't travel insurance void during martial law?

Not unless you get run over by a tank.

[cumgranosalum]

I am living proof that Thai hospitals are very good.

I spent 3 months in Sattahip hospital having had gangrene in my upper right leg, many debridements loads of infection. When I returned to Englands hospitals the doctors there could not believe my leg was saved . In fact they stated bluntly they would have removed it. They also told me it was a waste of time saving it as I would never walk again.

One up to Thailand as I walk all day every day.

you get gangrenous in the first place??

[brling]

I am living proof that Thai hospitals are very good.

I spent 3 months in Sattahip hospital having had gangrene in my upper right leg, many debridements loads of infection. When I returned to Englands hospitals the doctors there could not believe my leg was saved . In fact they stated bluntly they would have removed it. They also told me it was a waste of time saving it as I would never walk again.

One up to Thailand as I walk all day every day.

Nonsense, why did you then go to the "Englands hospitals", if your leg was saved in Thailand ? Why would a doctor from one of those "Englands hospitals" tell you it would be a waste of time saving your leg if it was saved in Thailand ? It is illegal for a dentist to remove a tooth in "Englands dentists" if it can be saved, so I am sure they would do everthing to save a leg. Wise up, and how many "Englands hospitals" did you visit ?

[Shadychris]

I am living proof that Thai hospitals are very good.

I spent 3 months in Sattahip hospital having had gangrene in my upper right leg, many debridements loads of infection. When I returned to Englands hospitals the doctors there could not believe my leg was saved . In fact they stated bluntly they would have removed it. They also told me it was a waste of time saving it as I would never walk again.

One up to Thailand as I walk all day every day.

Nonsense, why did you then go to the "Englands hospitals", if your leg was saved in Thailand ? Why would a doctor from one of those "Englands hospitals" tell you it would be a waste of time saving your leg if it was saved in Thailand ? It is illegal for a dentist to remove a tooth in "Englands dentists" if it can be saved, so I am sure they would do everthing to save a leg. Wise up, and how many "Englands hospitals" did you visit ?

Please do find and provide some proof to back up your statement that it is illegal to remove a tooth in England 'if it can be saved'. Actually don't bother - save yourself the time because no such law exists - you are the one talking nonsense!

Dentistry in the UK is regulated by the GDC. It IS illegal to practice dentistry in the UK if you are not registered with this body. They provide codes of practice that dentists are expected to adhere to, and if a practitioner is found to be breaching those codes they maybe suspended or permanently struck off the register. The question of whether a tooth could be saved or not is entirely up to the individual dentist's prognosis, and also to some extent the patients ability to pay for tooth reconstruction if that was necessary.

In case minikev does not see your post, I would say it's quite likely that this chap on finally being well enough to leave Sattahip hospital and travel home, would still have required a lot of outpatient rehabilitation treatment to care for the wound along with physiotherapy to help rebuild muscle wastage after 3 months in bed.

Your reading comprehension is also lacking - he stated that they said it was a waste of time saving his leg as they did not think he would be able to walk on it again. he has proved their opinion wrong and gone on to regain full mobility

Given the current NHS funding problems I suspect that if he had presented originally in the UK with such a problem of gangrene already set in, and they were dubious about the long term prospects, then a decision may well have been made fairly quickly to amputate the limb.

[BSJ]

So the moral of the story is 'When you come to Thailand relax, enjoy the place, walk don't run!'.

[Rajhulmaheesh]

i got food poisoned last night. just now feeling ok. Wish i had travel insurance.

[EyesWideOpen]

I always travel with Betadine. That is what hospitals use when they operate

on you. Any cut or road rash, I immediately put it on. Far better than

oral antibiotics.

[cumgranosalum]

if anyone has any doubts about the vagaries of the Thai land healthcare industry just take a quick look at a few stats.......I've got a couple here.

Thai infant mortality rate - 15.4

UK infant mortality rate 4.5

Thai overall life expectancy 75 years

UK overall life expectancy 81 years

[transam]

Heck, that blue suture looks like fishing line.

Fink it is, perhaps used........