Are annual check ups just money making for the hospitals

[lopburi3]

Double post using Android - I know not why.

[lopburi3]

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

Double post using Android - I know not why.

Now on PC and first post not visible - gonna be a great day!

 

You consult doctors - not hospitals.  And in my experience doctors will recommend the cheaper options (outside there hospital) if asked. 

[Canuck50]

On 11/16/2016 at 5:07 PM, Sheryl said:

There are several excellent, US trained and US board certified thyroid specialists at Bumrungrad. Feedback I have gotten on them has been very positive.

Sheryl, can you recommend some by name? I had a high TSH (first), and high Anti-TPO (Microsomal Ab), which confirmed Hashimoto's before leaving Canada in early October. Doc prescribed Synthroid and told me to monitor TSH (beginning after 6-8 weeks) and adjust meds accordingly. I will get the blood work done at BRIA this week but in case I need some follow-up here it would be good to have some names of docs to choose from.

[al007]

36 minutes ago, Canuck50 said:

Sheryl, can you recommend some by name? I had a high TSH (first), and high Anti-TPO (Microsomal Ab), which confirmed Hashimoto's before leaving Canada in early October. Doc prescribed Synthroid and told me to monitor TSH (beginning after 6-8 weeks) and adjust meds accordingly. I will get the blood work done at BRIA this week but in case I need some follow-up here it would be good to have some names of docs to choose from.

 

 

Without wanting to step on Sheryl

 

 I have cut and pasted her reply on another thread I had being weight and thyroid

 

"For thyroid issues I recommend Dr Rossanee or Dr. Jun at Bumrungrad

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Rosanee-Valyasevi

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Jun-Srimanunthiphol

 

Both  are quite good.

 

If they put you on thyroid replacement (as they may) do not buy at the hospital pharmacy, huge mark up. It is readily available, and cheap, at any pharmacy."

 

I never went to either of these because I did about six thyroid tests first and the results came back all ok

 

 

 

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[Canuck50]

On 11/28/2016 at 8:30 PM, al007 said:

 

 

Without wanting to step on Sheryl

 

 I have cut and pasted her reply on another thread I had being weight and thyroid

 

"For thyroid issues I recommend Dr Rossanee or Dr. Jun at Bumrungrad

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Rosanee-Valyasevi

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Jun-Srimanunthiphol

 

Both  are quite good.

 

If they put you on thyroid replacement (as they may) do not buy at the hospital pharmacy, huge mark up. It is readily available, and cheap, at any pharmacy."

 

I never went to either of these because I did about six thyroid tests first and the results came back all ok

 

 

 

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Thanks for passing these doctor's names on to me. I will hang onto them and pick one in case I need some follow-up.

[SaintLouisBlues]

I have only one anecdote about hospitals in Thailand but I believe it encapsulates what's wrong with the entire system. A friend of mine contracted a condition for which the standard, acknowledged treatment worldwide is a course of injections. When he said this to the doctor who informed him of his condition - the results were unambiguous in the blood test results - the doctor's response was "Oh no, we don't give patients here a course of injections, the nurses don't like to inflict pain".

 

I would never rely on annual check-ups here, but fortunately I have the money to go home for any check-ups. I've also consulted doctors here for a chronic condition that I have and on informing them of my medications been flatly told that some of my medications are wrong and I should cease taking them if I became their patient. As my medications are recommended by an equivalent of the Mayo Clinic I'm assuming that once trained many (most?) Thai clinicians simply don'y keep up with advances in medicine

[al007]

On 11/16/2016 at 7:57 AM, impulse said:

 

I did the same, at one of the big name hospitals in BKK.  EKG 2-4x a year and stress test each year for 3 years running.  Went in on a Friday because I knew something wasn't right.  Doc said no change on the EKG, so we'll see you in 3 months.  I insisted something was wrong and asked for the next level of tests.  

 

As a result, that Monday I had a triple bypass after they found one artery blocked 95% and another blocked 100% (I didn't think that was even possible- apparently it is).  This after the cardio guy gave me a clean bill of health.  Had I gotten reasonable care 3 years earlier, I suspect I would have gotten stents instead of a bypass.

 

Annual checkups are great if you can trust the results.  If they give you a warm fuzzy while something is eating you up from the inside, they're worse than useless.  They're criminal.

 

This is one case where Thai defamation laws cost lives.  We should be able to name and shame doctors (and hospitals) who give sub-standard care, just so others don't have to learn the hard way.  Like the guy at my office who died of a stroke the week after he was given a clean report on a "comprehensive" annual checkup.

 

This is unfortunately so very true

 

And yes the Deformation Laws help to cover all this up

 

ANOTHER REASON I HAVE TO PURSUE MY MALPRACTICE CASE, very similar blatant evidence of cancer ignored, because if we do nothing this laid back, could not care attitude will continue

[Ahab]

They probably are just a way to make money.... right up until the time they order a test that finds a cancer early, or a heart issue, etc., etc..