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suzannegoh

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  1. FWIW, this thread from last December is about the same thing as in that video.
  2. Maybe even more so. Rick Simpson Oil and similar oils are sold in some dispensaries in US states where weed has been legalized. In Thailand they specifically made concentrates illegal when they legalized cannabis. What’s legal are buds for smoking, edibles, and low-THC tinctures that might do something if you believe in them. That has always struck me as a bit strange because initially they said that the reasons for legalizing cannabis were medical.
  3. That video is about Rick Simpson Oil, a high THC (about 80% THC) cannabis oil. It might be available in Thailand but it is illegal despite Thailand's marijuana legalization. Theoretically you could make it yourself using legally purchased weed but the process of brewing in your kitchen is rather dangerous.
  4. Suanprung Hospital will prescribe that or something in the same family drugs at a cheap price.
  5. Is Google Maps reliable enough and 4G widespread enough in Laos that it can reliably be used for navigation during a car trip around the country?
  6. Thanks for chiming in, this thread can be closed now. There’s a law that every pizza thread must have a an Italian, someone who “knows pizza” because they’re from New York, and someone who cooks their own pizza at home. Until your contribution we were lacking the last one.
  7. No, they are not. This is just an attempt by political rivals to portray Move Forward as being puppets of the Americans.
  8. In a social setting, I was told by a Thai doctor who works at a private hospital that the so-called “30 Baht” medical plan for Thais doesn’t cover MRIs for patients with known or suspected cases of cancer and that the plan only covers old generation chemo drugs because they are cheaper. He gave specific examples of limitations of the plan as being that since the only chemo drug available in Thailand that is applicable to brain cancer is Temozolomide, which is wildly expensive, that the only treatment offered under the 30 baht plan for patients with a brain tumor would be surgery and radiation. And in the case of a woman having breast cancer, he claims that the plan would pay for a mastectomy but not for reconstructive surgery. Overall he was painting a picture of the Standard Of Cancer Care under the 30 Baht plan being about on par Standard of Care in the West 50 years ago. That doctor clearly has a vested interest in discouraging people from going to a government hospital but he isn’t our doctor, we were just speaking in generalists about the healthcare systems of different countries. Is what he’s saying at all accurate?
  9. I can’t at all agree that healthcare is a plus when retiring in Thailand, it's more of a reason to stay in farangland. Though it seems like most people on social media think that the medical care here is grand, I’ve had some alarming experiences with Thai hospitals. And since you’re not going to be able to take advantage of whatever healthcare plan your home country has for the elderly, you’re going to have to pay cash for your care and you’re likely to have trouble getting privately underwritten medical insurances after a certain age.
  10. The underlying visa is not necessarily different, both an non-Imm O and an an non-Imm OA need to be renewed annually and can be renewed on either the basis of retirement or marriage. The difference is that when you renew on the basis on marriage you only need to have 400K Baht in a Thai bank instead of 800K, you can get work legally, and you don't have to buy medical insurance from a Thai insurance company. However there's a bit more red tape when renewing the marriage visa.
  11. Who are the foremost experts in Thailand at diagnosing and treating breast implant-associated Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)?
  12. OK, but what I was wondering if it's difficult to exchange Kip back to Baht or USD as you are leaving Laos, while still in-country.
  13. What's the concern with having excess Kip when you are ready to leave, is it difficult to exchange Kip for dollars or baht as one is leaving Laos?
  14. I gave me a different answer: "Dick Cheney, the former Vice President of the United States and Liz Cheney's father, is known to have accidentally shot one person. This incident took place in February 2006, when he was hunting quail on a ranch in Texas. Cheney accidentally shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old attorney, while aiming for a bird. Whittington was injured but ultimately recovered from the incident."
  15. Do you think that the pathology in Thailand is more reliable for the big cancers - lung, brain, etc?
  16. That's a good point about Moh's outcomes being dependent upon the quality of the pathology. I had errant pathology here in which they were apparently unable to distinguish between Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC). And then I had a recurrence after having that cancerous skin removed by Wide Excision, despite the pathology saying that the the margins were clear.
  17. Dr. Rungsima at Siraraj Hospital in Bangkok does Moh's surgery but I don't know anyone who has been treated by her.
  18. However if you're only talking about bringing in small quantities for personal use, handcarrying medicines into Thailand usually goes unchallenged.
  19. Waste of money, half of the tests in those packages have no diagnostic value.
  20. Me either, but I've seen European tourists do that in Italian restaurants in Thailand, and wash it down with Chang beer mixed with Sprite.
  21. In these forums everyone says that pharmaceuticals are cheap in Thailand but yet in every case in which I've had prescriptions filled both in the US and in Thailand it's been much more expensive in Thailand. Some say that that's because I've been going to private pharmacies in Thailand and that "everyone knows" that you should go to a government hospital to get cheap drugs but I haven't investigated that yet.
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