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    Medical care in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/02/2007, Last updated on: 13/03/2014

    » So next time you go to Thailand for an holiday or medical care give the Thai people the respect they deserve. Because the nurses or the Hotel staff are mostly much under payed and their home situation is many times not so brilliant. Deal with a genuine courtesy, politeness and respect, and not in...

    • Sean Moran commented : [img:1yq17ntv]http://www.geocities.com/smorandom/stor/volvocap.jpg[/img:1yq17ntv] Dear Dr PM, thank you for the cap pictured above that you provided me just prior to the Ides of October 2005, to use during my transportation back from the Land of Smiles to the Fatal Shore so that other tourists on the plane would not be put off their in-flight snack by the sight of my shaved head covered in scalpel wounds and stitches. I also remain truly grateful for the extra effort you made to procure me my first packet of Marlboro after the accident when I wasn't recovered quite enough to leave Bumrungrad on my own to visit the local 711. I remain addicted to Birdy iced coffee as I explained back then. Hope you and yours are doing well and wish you all every happiness and success with the good things in life. Yours Sincerely, Sean Moran. ---ooo--- Essentially, the major advantage that the health system in Thailand has over that of other countries where I have been is that Thai health professionals treat their patients with the dignity we like to think we give to other human beings, rather than just another job on the to-do list; another burden to contend with between coffee breaks; another lab rat in the human biol department; another cadaver to play around with before the time comes when they automatically graduate and inflict the same learned attitudes on live test subjects. This human kindness rarely found in Australia spans from the private hospitals such as Bumrungrad to the public hospitals that have refunded my attempts to pay for their lifesaving help, to the drug stores where I have always been able to access the medication that helps my lungs to keep me alive. Every night I get closer to dying while I remain in Australia, not because they cannot source the prednisolone that would save my life, but because they are too pedantic and childishly stubborn to let me buy it. This is why, when I drop by an Australian pharmacy for a replacement salbutamol puffer (Ventolin/Asmol) and the newly emploed ignoramus behind the counter blurts out that same stupid teasing rhetorical question, "Are you using a preventer?", I find the friendliest succinct answer that comes to mind is, "As soon as I can afford to get back to a civilised country, miss." followed by a scowl that tells her, "Just serve the friggin' paying customer his ventolin and stfu when you won't sell him what you're asking about anyway, biatch" The simplification of the secondary and tertiary academic process in Australia has severely impeded the quality of staff in the local public health system; from pharmacists to public hospital nursing staff (mostly contract workers) to GPs, where those who would not have graduated from high school before the affirmative action following the Beasley Report of 1985 can now be authorised to stand at your hospital bedside and inject mystery drugs into your body under the pretense that "it's just a little something to help you relax..." This is why I now refrain from using the colloquial TLC (The Lucky Country) in favour of TFS (The Fatal Shore). Getting back to a civilised country once more is literally a matter of life or death for some of us.

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    Farang and their seemingly paradoxical ways

    By Mr. Surin Province, Created on: 17/10/2008, Last updated on: 17/04/2010

    » As a long-historied Farang resident myself, comfortable and understanding, I have to ask the age old question regarding Westerners that find it necessary to stay/live here while finding life so objectionable in many ways. Why is this so? I've experienced this throughout Asia {in particular the LOS}...

    • singpurdonki commented : d pancreas there are alot of fatal accidents in asean countries and china where transplant can be exchange and i am sure you can afford. (similar type of exchange your husband do) do yourself, your son and the families of accidental death a favor and then start a new life after that

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    It's a Nice Day for a white Wedding

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/02/2010

    » Last week I attended the wedding in inner-city Bangkok of a former staff member and her long-term boyfriend. I should have been happy, but I wasn't.

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    Full-featured music aides

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 24/02/2010

    » Time was, when you wanted to listen to music via the computer, you loaded up Winamp and it played your songs quite well - so long as they were MP3.

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    Bigger is not always better, especially when running a notebook

    Database, James Hein, Published on 10/03/2010

    » Is bigger really better in the computing world? As an example, I've chosen the latest iteration of Visual Studio, VS 2010. There has been a trend over successive versions of many software developers to add in everything they can think of in a new release.

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    A man and his Motor Mouse

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/03/2010

    » Imagine my surprise last week when a mouse stuck its head out of my car air-conditioner. It was late at night in the car park of Channel 3. It seems this little mouse had made a home in my car for more than a few days, which would explain the scuffling and shuffling heard on and off by yours truly this past week. Thank goodness it was a mouse and not the onset of schizophrenia.

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    Native tongue twisters

    Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/05/2010

    » All around my Los Angeles neighbourhood are hand-written signs tacked onto lofty palm trees: ``ACCENT ELIMINATION''. The two words are followed by a local telephone number, which to my surprise doesn't begin with 555. Accent Elimination _ how intriguing.

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    TRC gets little from CRES

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 28/09/2010

    » Leaders of the security forces have provided the Truth for Reconciliation Commission with little new information in an first meeting on the April and May crackdown.

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    Genetic jinxes

    Mylife, David Canavan, Published on 02/11/2010

    » Imagine that you are living in the countryside, away from pollution. You drink the finest spring water and eat only organic meals. You never smoke or drink alcohol. You are fit and healthy and exercise daily. You would imagine that you are destined for a healthy, happy, long life, and you probably are, unless you have a killer lurking in your genes.

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    How should abortion laws be handled in Thailand?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/11/2010

    » The arrest of a young 17 year-old girl after she attempted to perform an abortion on herself with drugs obtained over the internet has sparked a renewed debate on how these sensitive cases should be handled.

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