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Home » Health » Hospitals » Reader Submission: Only Bumrungrad hospital in top 200 best hospitals worldwide
Reader Submission: Only Bumrungrad hospital in top 200 best hospitals worldwide
Posted in Health, Reader Submission, Hospitals
Tags: Bumrungrad International Hospital, Hospital
The Thai Bumrungrad hospital is the only Thai hospital in the top 200 of best hospitals worldwide and is also outside the top 100. The list includes 3 Belgian and 7 Dutch hospitals. The best Belgian hospital is in 31st place and the best Dutch hospital in 22nd place.
Newsweek has teamed up with Statista Inc, a respected global data research firm, to compile the top list. The best hospitals in the world ranking is compiled with hospitals from 25 countries: USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Canada, India, Australia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Thailand, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Israel and Singapore.
The countries were selected mainly on the basis of standard of living/life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and availability of data.
See www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2021
Submitted by Jan V from Belgium
Our experience is different; I rate the Samitivej Hospital in Soi 49 really much higher, with a lot of personal attention.
My wife was there last month. had excellent treatment. MRI scan within 1 day. Result the next day. Good explanation. Friendly. Wouldn't know what could have been better.
Depends on your personal experience, but I/we thought it was number 1 in Asia
Typically an American ranking. Just forget it is a chauvinistic ranking. For a small country, we are top in the world. But they have to make the effort to conduct a thorough and independent investigation.
Somewhat negative about the ranking. Investigated what the source is and it turns out that a German research company Statista did the research;
Here's an excerpt from Wiki about this German, so solid and reliable, researcher:
Statista is a German company specializing in market and consumer data. According to the company, its platform contains more than 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and 170 different industries
Several countries are mentioned in the top and to criticize the US listing is based on wrong sentiment. Look at the studies; that is the guiding principle of the ranking and not the perception of some individuals.
You can prove anything with statistics, a lot depends on the question, how you formulate it, etc. I attach much more importance to “the experience of individuals” as you so neatly put it. And who paid for the research 🙂
It is not just about statistics, but in this case about expert opinions (2 Americans, 2 Germans, 1 Swiss, 1 Frenchman and 1 Irishman) and customer surveys (surveys among patients) and some more data. More details can be found at the bottom of the results in which everything is explained. I consider it reliable, in addition, Newsweek and a reputable research agency will not risk their reputation and livelihood to report something wrong because if they want you can see all the details.
Correct presentation of the facts Ger, but you will always find farangs who see everything through rose colored glasses when it comes to their beloved Thailand and don't want to face the truth
Yes indeed; We are among the top in the world with our TOPPERS trained in America. And that does not only apply in the medical field.
Newsweek (USA) has a ranking of the best hospitals in the world, and the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are hospitals in…yes, the USA.
I get a bit of a toilet duck feeling
I guess those top US hospitals are for the billionaires.
Then of course you also have to be able to deliver quality.
And when I look at the age of American politicians, they do too.
apparently there is an elixir of life available to them, which gives them years extra.
That elixir of life really exists. It has two components. One is called dollar, the other tax break. You must enjoy them together.
I was there once!!
I didn't find the pianist on the grand piano "des hospitalal's"
The string orchestra on the other floor, and then also in dress suit, I found on the snobbish side.
Similar nonsense rating as in the Netherlands…. Total madness and very very harmful. But yes, we have to join this nonsense game, the media has the power and is only too happy to use it.
An American list. Facelifts and tummy tucks will have weighed heavily.
My experiences with some hospitals in BKK are excellent and also quite decent in the region.
My father-in-law spent his last months in Bangkok Pataya (he was given up in the Netherlands) and had nothing but praise for the nurses and doctors. Nothing was too much, yes of course we paid, but still! If I really get sick, I will go to Thailand for care. You can compare KLM and Eva air class of difference.
I can appreciate it in terms of nursing, luxurious rooms and social contact, but not in terms of the quality and competence of most doctors. For the prices they dare to ask, you can indeed get top service. In BE, placing a stent costs about 5500 euros all included, in Bangkok Pattaya hospital R.'s insurance paid 9 THB 700000 years ago!!!!!! What I can also confirm is true, as far as the rapid abandonment of patients with a certain age in the Netherlands is concerned. A colleague of mine from Scheveningen's 2 cousins were reported in the Netherlands. Since my colleague worked in Brussels, he suggested having them examined for a 2nd opinion at the UZ Leuven. After 9 months one died of a brain haemorrhage that had nothing to do with his illness and the second is still alive and well after 2 years. I know not long ago and people who knew Coiske in Pattaya, a Flemish man who had lived in Pattaya for 4 years, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in Bangkok Pattaya Hospital but did not want to be treated in TH. Returned to BE where only a prostate infection was diagnosed and Coiske was completely cured after 30 weeks of antibiotics. So I think that in TH many people have already been cured of cancer and given doses of chemo for nothing LOL. ! I myself had a terrible headache at the back of my head. Received the first diagnosis in BKK Pattaya hospital, “skin infection”, as usual in GANS TH a full bag of medication and antibiotics. Then I started my tour and visited different hospitals every day, Sisaket, KhonKaen, Udon Thani, Pitsanaluk, because I usually couldn't tolerate the pain. Same story EVERYWHERE, skin infection with always more and more antibiotics, up to 2x 3mg per day! Then after 875 days I arrived in Chiangmai and visited RAM hospital where a young doctor trained in the USA (BOSTON) told me after just 10 minute that I did not have a skin infection at all but the zona (Herpes Zoster). So I took antibiotics for 1 days for a virus!!!! If they had given me antiviral drugs immediately within 10 hours of the correct diagnosis, I would have been spared those severe pains and those large doses of antibiotics. While the danger is proclaimed everywhere in the world regarding the frequent use of antibiotics, in TH prescribed antibiotics with full dedication. On top of that, life expectancy in TH is 24 years lower than in BE/NL! That doesn't say enough. So, and I hope we don't have to experience it, but if I get seriously ill, I and, as far as I know, many farangs living in TH, will take the first plane back to Europe. All these facts come from my immediate environment and from myself and not "hearsay".
Every day a different hospital visited this for 10 days. Always got the same diagnosis.
Strange story, I regularly hear that people ask for a second or third opinion but 10? Weren't you better after returning to the Netherlands the third time? They have better qualified doctors there.
Lodewijk, I was on a tour with friends and simply couldn't go back. In every city I stayed in I went to see a doctor because the pain did not improve. With this I just wanted to point out that I am not surprised by the position of Thai hospitals in the rankings. The fact that I received a correct diagnosis in Chiangmai from a US-trained doctor says enough about the level of Thai education. This proves that there are also very intelligent Thai people who had the luck and the money to receive a highly qualified education abroad.
Such a ranking is very subjective. What is paid attention to and can the data that is supplied, for example, be compared. I don't value this.