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Home » Reader question » My father is in a Thai hospital, but communication with the doctors is poor
Dear readers,
I am looking for someone who can help me in mediation in medical care. My father is in Srinagarind Hospital with acute liver failure, is very ill and difficult to talk to and the contact with the doctors is minimal. We have come over to assist him but get little cooperation.
How do we get more information about him and his treatment plan?
Regards,
Elien
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Elien, I wish father a speedy recovery.
My experience in Srinagarind Khon Kaen is different; especially my knowledge of English was fine for me in that university hospital. Don't they have an interpreter service there?; there are hospitals that provide it.
Try to speak to the head of the department. I can't imagine they are ignoring your visit, even though there is also corona there....
Definitely ask for an interpreter. My husband was in the Bangkok hospital and immediately got an interpreter, which worked perfectly. Our health insurer in the Netherlands also cooperated perfectly.
Best wishes to your father.
Yes, the Srinagarind Khon Karin has an interpreter service and the ophthalmologist who helped me spoke excellent English with his assistant.
For an insurance I had to be examined, of course in a private hospital.
The internist thought I had had a heart attack.
And had drawn up a treatment plan…
Didn't quite trust that, so to the Sirikit heart center of KK university.
Completely through the mill.
Final call was a relief.
The chef de Clinique, so to speak, asked me what I actually came to do, not a heart attack, but a small abnormality.
Requested my heart film from ten years ago in the hospital in my hometown that was made during a professional examination and took it to the doctor.
No difference between the old and new.
Remark from the doctor, so it turned out to be the professor, if you want to spend a lot of money, you go to the private hospital, if you want the best care, you come to me.
I have always remembered in the twelve years since.
Yes Hans, regarding your last paragraph:
3 years ago Chaantje was bad but really bad.
I think, the best of the best, so to private hospital. Room with balcony, room-sized giant flat screen and a meter-wide fruit basket.
The girl was too miserable to let all that happen to her. Moreover, nothing was done.
my wife asked herself: take me to the 30 Bath hospital.
There she lay with 50 people in a room,
But doctors who take care of you with heart and soul found out that she had a mild(?) form of tuberculosis.
So expensive is not always good.
You can possibly email the Dutch or Belgian embassy in Thailand and ask if they can call the hospital and pass on your questions. They can then email the answers to you. I think there is always a person who speaks Thai and Dutch at the embassy. I have known such a problem and an email was sent by a person from the Belgian embassy and according to the name she was Thai. It is best to ask your questions in English. Of course I don't know anything about the Dutch embassy in BKK if they have such a person, but I assume so. Good luck.Rene
Rene yes, the Dutch embassy has a woman who speaks English and perfect Dutch in addition to Thai (of course).
I also doubt whether contacting a Thai hospital is one of their duties.
But no shot is missed.
Hi Elien,
Good luck with your father.
If you are looking for someone to act as an interpreter, please contact my Thai wife Noy
089 018 0789
For Dutch please contact me first > 098 071 2220.
Noy can talk to the doctors in the search house, explain the result to me, and then I can explain it back to you. Cumbersome? Yes, but apparently there is no other way, probably also because
you yourself and do not speak Thai and English (or too little).