Need recommendations for cheap surgery?!

[Greatwhite7]

Not really surgery, more a 20 minute procedure.

 

A friend has to have a fat cyst (lipoma) removed from her back. The hospital in Pattaya wants 15,000b to do it. 
 

I had one removed in Australia for 2000b (1000 after Medicare rebate). Local GP did it in 20 minutes.
 

Anyone know of a place that would do it cheaper than 15,000?

 

Do medical centres or the like do them?

 

 

 

[sinbin]

I'd have thought any doctor with a private surgery would do it for a few hundred?

[lopburi3]

Thailand does not have much in the way of doctors with private surgery - almost all medical attention beyond blood pressure/pills for colds/infections is preformed in a hospital setting.  Every hospital has out patient facilities and the price will vary greatly.  There is more than one private hospital in Pattaya and there are government hospital facilities are normally a fraction of the price.  If Thai even cheaper or free.  

 

But expect 15k price is for a plastic surgeon to preform the operation and they indeed are much more expensive.   

[sinbin]

3 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Thailand does not have much in the way of doctors with private surgery -

You're having a laugh mate

[Greatwhite7]

39 minutes ago, sinbin said:

I'd have thought any doctor with a private surgery would do it for a few hundred?

Thats what I was thinking.

If a GP in Australia can do it in 20 mins, surely someone in Thailand can do it just as quickly and cheaply?!

[Greatwhite7]

22 minutes ago, sinbin said:

You're having a laugh mate

Medical Clinics in Pattaya

• Chanya Clinic Jomtien
  481/10-11 Thappraya Road (near the Hanuman statue), Jomtien
• Dr. Jomtien Clinic
  131/60-61 Soi Chaiyapruek, just off Jomtien Beach Road
• Dr. Olivier Clinic
  20/29 Soi Boutique City Hotel (Soi Day-Night), South Pattaya Road
  Tel. 038-723 600, 038-723 590, Emergency 086-827 6922
  Dr. Olivier Meyer, your multilingual doctor in Pattaya, speaks English, French and German.
• Dr. Sawaddipong Clinic
  20/1 Pratamnak Road, South Pattaya

I am guessing one of these would be able to do it?!

[lopburi3]

24 minutes ago, sinbin said:

You're having a laugh mate

No - not really.  Clinic type care here (outside of plastic surgery) is basic send you to hospital if anything more than the current flu is suspected.  Almost none have testing facilities or are maintained at anything approaching operating conditions.  Doctors have use of hospitals and the OPD is the place most people use for medical treatment. 

[sinbin]

10 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

No - not really.  Clinic type care here (outside of plastic surgery) is basic send you to hospital if anything more than the current flu is suspected.  Almost none have testing facilities or are maintained at anything approaching operating conditions.  Doctors have use of hospitals and the OPD is the place most people use for medical treatment. 

Christ he only has a ' lipoma'. A needle and a quick squeeze and it'd be over in 5 minutes.

 

[Sheryl]

Nonetheless, Lopburi3 is right. It would be very unusual for a doctor in a clinic in Thailand to do something like this...possible (though not usually) remove a cyst, but not a lipoma. Never seen or heard of it being done in a clinic or doctors office.

 

However, it can easily be done at very low cost in a government hospital.

 

Removal of a lipoma involves more than "a needle and a quick squeeze". That would apply only to a cyst, a lipoma is not a cyst. It is solid and requires excision with scalpel etc, then suturing. How difficult depends on its size and its location. I have known lipomas to require general anesthesia for removal (these were of course large ones). I have also known lipomas to require specialized surgery, for example ones on the wrist close to nerves and blood vessels of the hand. But as a private hospital quoted 15K we can safely assume neither if these is the case here.

 

The poster who reports having this done quickly and cheaply in Oz would have had  a cyst, not a lipoma.

 

As long as scarring is not of concern, just go to a government hospital, will cost likely just a very thousand baht.

[Greatwhite7]

16 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

However, it can easily be done at very low cost in a government hospital.

 

The poster who reports having this done quickly and cheaply in Oz would have had  a cyst, not a lipoma.

 

 

Thanks will inform her.

 

Yeah mine was a fat cyst that became infected.  

[al007]

Greatwhite Seven

 

 I think what you are looking for is not cheap surgery BUT cost effective surgery

 

Generally you get what you pay for

 

I have in my last ten years in Thailand, had many different experiences ranging from the negligent at private hospitals to exceptional at government hospitals

 

Maybe a good government hospital is your answer

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Wanted to do something similar in Canada. The GP actually told me to go with a plastic surgeon as they would do a better job masking the scars. So, if that's important to you........

 

 

[cheeryble]

Not Pattaya but for cost comparison I had a little growth removed from my tongue at a well known GP surgery in CM.

 

He did it so quickly including a stitch or two I didn't think he'd started.

 

If I remember right a bit north or south of 1000 baht including biopsy.

 

As for private clinics abilities he often takes samples, prepares a slide with a flame, gets the microscope out, and you have your diagnosis in minutes.

For lipids there is literally a mini lab on the stairway landing.....result again in short order.

 

 

Edited January 23, 2017 by cheeryble

[Sheryl]

Unless he is a qualified pathologits (which I doubt), he is nto competent to do a tissue biopsy.

 

He can do gram stains on things like pus, sputum etc which can aid in diagnosis of bacterial infections.

 

But a "growth" should be biopsied, which mean examination by a specialist in histopathology.