Bangkok Heart Hospital is advertising a special price on bypass surgery. Now through September 30, 2011 the advertised price is 395,000 baht. It takes a call to their call center to get all the details – there are none in the print advertising that is running in the Thai newspapers about his offer. The hospital […]

The topic comes up now and then so it seems like time for an update on cord blood banking options in Thailand. This is the process of cryostorage of blood from the umbilical cord for potential use in developing stem cells for later use in treating various conditions. As far as we know there are […]

Here is another first hand account of medical treatment at a hospital in Thailand. This time it is Mission Hospital and as the writer points out he was usually very satisfied with service from Mission but ended up quite disappointed this time. His story: Looking at the scale, I knew something was wrong. The month […]

Rather than parrot all the usual stories about medical tourism in Thailand, on this blog we try to focus on actual first hand accounts of medical services received in the Kingdom. So here we have a first hand account from a patient who had eye surgery in Thailand and the story has an usual twist […]