San paulo Hospital

Mart · Member Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 98

Has anybody had tests done at the San paulo hospital? I need a thyroid test and was wondering if it might be better going to Bangkok.

Cheers

Mart

Norseman · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

Hi Mart.

Instead of going to Bangkok you find a good hospital in Phetchaburi, the Phetcherat Hospital.
For my money, a much better alternative than San Paulo.
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billseymour · Member Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 64 Location: LOS

Can't speak for San Paolo, but we live in Phetchaburi and have had good experience with the Petcharat hospital.

If you decide to head this way, and in case you cannot read the Thai hospital names, the Phetcharat is the second hospital on the right of Highway 4 as you drive north, near the Wat Banda-it crossroads.

The first is the Thonburi Group hospital, which we suggest you avoid.

machersjohn · Member Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 72

Ther is a web site for Pecharat Hospital. A friend had to take his wife there for an investigation into a lump in her breast. He was full of praise for the staff and said the service was superb and not costly. His wife was given the all clear. www.petcharat-hospital.com

Mart · Member Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 98

Thanks very much for the info - much appreciated.

mart

Big A · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject:

I have personal experience. Short of BKK Petcharat is the best equiped nearby to handle anything serious. San Paulo has a collaboration going with Petcharat and they will ship you up there in an bambulance if necessary.
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Jaime · Ace Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1894 Location: Sh*t Creek

Just visited the Petcharat Hospital web site posted above by machersjohn.

There is an english language option, on which they seem to have lavished loads of attention on every conceivable type of internet graphic effect (so much so that it is comical) but which suffers from typically amateurish English translation. Here is an example:

With experienced, determination, and great potential of our hospital 's affiliate team, we vision people in our vicinity receiving qualified medical services and well prepared qualified medical facilities equivalent to private hospitals in Bangkok. Therefore, Petcharat Hospital was established from January 25, 1997, thereafter.

I kind of get the jist but never having been to the hospital this lack of attention to detail does not fill me with confidence. Since Petcharat itself raises the issue of comparison with Bangkok Hospitals I checked out the Bumrungrad web site. English on their web site is excellent. Why, oh, why don't Petcharat pay for a professional translation!?
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Big Boy · Legend Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 3192 Location: UK

Jaime said

Farang · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 661

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Proper foreign heathen tongue on any Asian website is the exception, not the norm.

Just listen to recordings on any of the Thai internet or communication companies.

Don't pee yourselves.
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Randy Cornhole · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

My friends have orders to have me sent to 'Burger King' for treatment rather than go to San Paulo... And yes I have been before.
Actually Subways I here can apply a plaster or too.
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buksida · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

As Farang says, very few Thai websites are written in correct English for a number of reasons.

Primarily they don't want to pay for professional services and would rather hire a webmaster that was educated to Bor 6 because he is cheap.

Secondly they don't want to lose face by admitting they can't spell in a foreign language so just leave the site all screwed up.

This goes for most Thai businesses. That aside though I have had very good experiences with Petcharat Hospital's medical services.
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Jaime · Ace Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1894 Location: Sh*t Creek

Buksida's post confirms what I think most of us realise anyway but I think there is (or should be) a difference in approach between say, a real estate agency or restaurant and a hospital purporting to offer services to international clients.

T.I.T.!
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cockneyrebel · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

I spent 3 days in San Paulo a couple of years ago, and, apart from them not releasing my passport until the bill got paid (my insurance company in UK dragged their bums) I found it great. I had a private room with en-suite, tv, good food and some of the nurses were gorgeous.

Having said that a friend of mine had a minor stroke while in HH and after an initial diagnosis in SP he was taken to Petcharat Hospital where he had the necessary scans, then was brought back to SP for the rest of his treatment. He ended up staying there for 3 weeks until he was deemed well enough to travel back to the UK.

I've also had the pleasure of attending Bumrungrad in BKK for an ear infection and found it very pleasurable, like a 5* hotel in fact. I was booked-in, seen and relieved of my baht inside 30 minutes, you don't get that in Newham General even if you paid for it!!! Incidentally if anyone is trying for a visa for their loved ones in LOS to come to the UK, it's a good idea to get a full MOT for them in Bumrungrad, including a chest x-ray. The results come in a nice folder, all in English, and it gets them through customs this end no problem.

Beguine · Member Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 54

I have been to SP hospital a couple of times and taken a friend there. OK for cuts and bruises or coughs and colds and may be OK for more serious things but seemed rather hit and miss to me. You will not find any top flight doctors there. I don't know Petcharat which is probably a good halfway house but I can recommend BNH, Samitivej and Bamrungrad in Bkk for anything serious. They have a lot of overseas trained specialists on the staff plus consultants coming in from outside. Also very good for regular medical checks.

A true anecdote. I was taken to a clinic in HH (not SP) highly recommended by a local with a broken collar bone several years ago. The doctor told me after Xray it was the worst compound fracture he had ever seen and would have to be sewn up with metallic thread. I decided not to hang around for this scary sounding treatment and went straight up to Bkk clutching my Xrays. The specialist at Samitivej laughed at the diagnosis from HH and said the silly fools didn't even know how to take an Xray properly which accounted for the weird diagnosis. The fracture was not too serious as broken collar bones go and healed without surgery.

prcscct · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: