The Grumpy Expat Forum

Bangkok Hospital is planning to build a hospital and rehabilitation centre on Mittrapap Road near Pak Chong. The rehabilitation centre will be handy for those who have just been shown their bill and loan facilities will be made available. Full details are in the link and note that they don't yet know when they will start to build. Great breaking news!

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/20 ... 32185.html

My experience of going to the dentist here have been limmited to a tooth removal and a clean and polish, tooth removal 600-700 baht and a clean and polish about the same, done at the Bangkok hospital, did a good job plus the dentist spoke English, on the 4th floor. From what I can gather though, if you want anything else doing then it starts to get very expensive indeed. Not surprisingly, nomal insurance doesn't ...

'Virus 2009' is here. It's pronounced 'wirewus'. I believe that it's H1N1.

One of Mrs Saf's sisters in another village has been unwell for a while and has now been told that she has this bug. No one visits her now and the family is banned from my home!

The local village PA this morning announced that vaccine is available at the local hospital for babies, people with heart conditions, diabetics and people weighing more ...

Well, to get this section going, surprised there are no topics yet, how about an input session on supplements?

Do they work or not?

Having researched this subject somewhat then I was surprised to find that the supplement industry is surprisingly unregulated in the west and everywhere else, believe it or not, the USA and Europe really only have established an RDA for some but not all, there is much that is 'up for disscussion' ...