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15 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:
Lots of methods of suicide could take place in a car park. Overdose, poison, gunshot, self-inflicted wounds etc, etc.
The British Parking Association obviously thinks it's a possibility - they have a web page about it.
Just about impossible to kill yourself from an overdose of prescription medicines. Who is going to choose poison as a means of ending it all given how painful that is too? If he died of self inflicted gunshot wounds, why would the family question that and why do it in a car park rather than a hotel? I don't blame the mother for questioning the police verdict.
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5 minutes ago, Moonlover said:
He was at the foot of a high building along with a suicide note. Why are people questioning this unfortunate death?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/darnel-kimbia
I was questioning it because I did not know he was at the foot of a high building. Having said that, I would question the many reported suicides of foreigners jumping from high buildings. It's not easy to do and if he had hopped across to Cambodia could have found a much more pleasant way to finish off his life.
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1 hour ago, mfd101 said:
Um, all the same things that might happen if you did it back in your hotel room or out the back at the loo of a restaurant - gun, poison, slash wrists, ...
Wouldn't you prefer to do any of these in your hotel room as your final act in life? Also if serious about suiciding, you're not going to do it in a place where people might find you and call for medical assistance.
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34 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:
Because if this person did commit suicide and did so in a car park, (and if the body had not been moved) then that's where the body would be found.
Yeah, obviously, but what method of suicide other than leaping from a high rise would result in you dying in a car park?
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If you suicided in Bangok, why would your body be found in a carpark?
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16 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:Well lucky he didn’t get the PM post else will have to go thru hassle of resignation and choosing new PM
If he got the PM post he wouldn't have needed to resign.
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I reckon a long jail sentence would be more effective than any of the over the top suggestions here.
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4 hours ago, Somjot said:
Exactly, dear @spock
Or to use a phrase from the movie 300:
“You
SpartansVulcans take pride in your logic. I suggest you imply it.”Sorry I'm a cineast.
There are so many dental clinics in Bangkok; just Google them, find one of your taste and be done with it.
Oops, again (GOT).
In the medical field things work quite differently in Thailand. We westerners prefer to look for a good doctor or dentist and once we have found one, we stay with him or her “till death do us part”.
In Thailand many doctors don't want to bother opening a clinic with all the risks and costs, so they work in hospitals, many times even in two or three different hospitals at the same time spending one or two days in one and then moving on to the next.
That can be quite confusing for us as we want to see our doctor at any day of the week.
I think that you might be more comfortable with a smaller clinic employing not more than 5 or 8 dentists with two or three general practicians and the rest being specialists.
Gee you people take things the wrong way. The original point of my post was that I need an endodontist and and the Dental hospital was mentioned. I checked reviews and found a lot of negative comments about the organisational side of the place but said I would still go there for the availability of specialists and microscope equipment. Reviews are a useful guide to the quality of services - I always read 100s of them when choosing a hotel, an airline, an insurance company or a restaurant. My concern here is the quality of dentistry and the equipment availability for complicated procedures rather than whether I am going to be likely to wait an hour or two for an appointment or 25 minutes for my bill. I totally agree that generally a small clinic with an ongoing relationship with a single dentist would suit me far better long term - but not for two root canals.
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18 minutes ago, Sheryl said:
I have never had any problem with communication with the admin (though I do speak Thai, so can't say how it would be jor a non-Thai speaker). and my waits have not been excessive.
The criticism of poor communication relates largely to that between the dentist and staff (resulting in the wrong kind of dentist being assigned to a case), including when it come to making up the bill, but also includes the difficulty of making an appointment because no one picks up the phone. I accept your good experience as the norm. I take the criticism on board and plan around the worst happening, but ultimately it's the skill of the practitioners with which I am concerned.
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9 hours ago, Sheryl said:
Bear in mind that people tend to post reviews only if they have an axe to grind.
I have been using that place for some 30+ years. Go there at least twice a year. Over the years, I havd had multiple RCTs there.
Never had the problems you mention. Doesn't mean they never happen. But they are certainly not the norm.
There are over 150 reviews and only a 3.2 average, which is way below any other dental establishment. The poor reviews are largely concerned with poor communication, administration, waiting times rather than the dentists, though even they don't escape criticism with a few names mention (who I would avoid or be wary of). The move to On Nut really seems to have expose some of the flaws. There is actually a really good apartment place in which to stay nearby, and I like the situation of On Nut, but I would definitely book myself to stay in the area a week beyond the appointment time, such was the negativity I read in the comments about the organisation rather than its practitioners.
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7 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:
Remember, that although it is an Australian restaurant….the COOKS are Thai.
No one puts sugar on fries.
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11 minutes ago, Somjot said:
Listen, I was not trying to advertise for them. I just knew, they had a microscope for root canal treatment, which is the proper equipment for a specialist.
But of course, I have no idea about their staff.
Generally spoken I would be careful with any place, which has 100% good reviews with maximum points (good reviews can be created or bought; bad reviews can be removed by a good lawyer), same as places, which have mostly bad reviews (speaks for itself).
The reviews of those places are reliable, which are 95% good and the rest being bad.
But this is just my personal experience.
I have heard things similar to those, which you describe but you have to understand, I am the only foreign dentist in Thailand running his own clinic and I must be extremely careful, how I comment any other clinics, as I am - how do I express this? - permanently under a microscope myself, not a dental one as you can imagine.
There are people just waiting for me to make a wrong move; I have no intention to grant them this favor.
(They actually have 6 microscopes) I understand you and appreciate your advice and opinions. The onus is on me to then do my own research and not blame anyone but myself if I make the wrong decision. With Thailand's harsh defamation laws I can fully understand you not wanting to be critical of other practices. Your information actually helps me select a dental option in my own country, such as selecting an endodontist over a dentist for a root canal on a tooth where there is not much back up in my mouth if anything goes wrong. Keep up the good work. I find this thread really useful.
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27 minutes ago, Somjot said:
Please keep in mind that you have been asking for an endodontist, aka root canal specialist.
Now as I wrote, most root canal treatments can be successfully performed by experienced dentists but if there is a high chance for complications, the root canal specialist is the person you want to visit.
In most cases they have a couple of months if not years of additional education and experience and the much better equipment than the normal dentist.
For example they work with a dental microscope, a huge piece of equipment, normally fixed on the wall with prices starting 20,000,- € and more, not to mention the special motors for the treatment.
As far as I know, the dental hospital has this equipment same as the Bangkok hospital Pattaya.
However, generally I tried to avoid any kind of recommendations no matter if according to clinics, restaurants or hotels as one man's heaven is the next man's hell.
And I would be a bit careful with those reviews. It is easy to ask friends and relatives for a good review without them ever having experienced your services but on the other hand side, some customers use this as a lever.
Last year a guy came for a professional tooth cleaning, which was performed perfectly by my colleague within 50 minutes; after that he was handed a mirror to check the result.
The guy was very happy, even complimented my doctor for his great and totally painless job, paid at the counter and left.
Next morning, he called us by WhatsApp and complained, that after rechecking his teeth at home, he had noticed that 2 teeth are not completely clean.
I apologised and offered him to come to my place immediately, so we can re-check and if necessary, re-treat.
He said that he had lost his trust in us, was now traumatized and wants us to wire his money back.
I asked: “We cleaned 26 teeth, which took us 50 minutes and because of 2 allegedly not perfectly cleaned teeth you want your complete money back?”
“Smart guy.” He answered arrogantly and if I would refuse, he would write many horrible reviews about my clinic on Google Maps and many other social media, “so that you can close your dental <deleted>house within a month.”
I asked about root canal and also read on the BIDH website that they only have one endodontist and appointments are very difficult. However, having read all the reviews of the Dental hospital, if I was flying in and out of Bangkok for booked treatment, I am not sure I could trust the dental hospital. The vast majority of bad reviews are of management and reception as well as deceptive pricing, though there are several that are critical of the dentists too. The most negative reviews are post 2018 since their move to On Nut. Many people complaining about long waits for treatment and for their bill, as well as treatment not being completed within the planned time frame. On the basis of the many reviews I read, I could not trust this place if I was not a resident of Bangkok.
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2 hours ago, Sheryl said:
I think he means the Dental Hospital near Onnut http://www.dentalhospitalbangkok.com/
Which is where I go myself
It's not very well reviewed.
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On 9/6/2023 at 9:59 PM, Somjot said:
These days there seem to be so many specialists in dentistry.
Any experienced, skilled dentist with good equipment can perform a root canal treatment.
But if you have a history of failed root canal treatments or want to be 100% - there is no 100% in medicine - let's say, 98% sure that the treatment will be successful, then you have to go and see one of those endodontists.
In Bangkok I would go to the dental hospital while in Pattaya I would recommend the Bangkok hospital Pattaya.
I assume that by dental hospital you are referring to is the one in Silom not the BIDH in Sukhumvit. The former doesn't get reviewed very favourably and there are few reviews compared to BIDH. Personally, I find hospital or clinic recommendations a bit difficult to truly observe because it's the individuals working within those places in whom I need to have faith rather than the overall reputation of the establishment. With hospitals and clinics that have different people for different roles, it's almost impossible to truly establish the worth of a place as you could be dealing with so many different people. I have used BIDH in the past for simple procedures such as teeth cleaning and am suspicious of their methods. For root canals and implants you need to have some knowledge regarding the competence of the person performing the task.
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20 hours ago, moogradod said:
Sugar on french fries ? Is this a US thing ? Fries are eaten with salt (and even more than less) and mayonnaise (not ketchup). I have been living for a while in the Be NeLux from where the french fries are supposed to have been originated. And they make indeed the best fries.
He said it was an Australian restaurant that put sugar on fries, something which as an Australian I have never come across.
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2 hours ago, Marco51 said:
make that 30 plus. 20 years ago the red songtau mafia already extorted 100 Baht from tourists where 10 Baht would be the real fare.
I lived there 6 months in 1995 after 5 years in Bangkok and found it much more expensive than Bangkok. I had a car too which meant I did not have to deal with the transport mafia. I couldn't get out of Phuket quickly enough.
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So long as the Russians largely confine themselves to Phuket I don't particularly care as it's an area of Thailand I have no desire to ever again visit.
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Are there good endodontists in Thailand? May need a couple of root canals on back lower molar and wisdom tooth. Given the jaw has lost about 50% of the bone, I'd be paying for root canals on teeth that may not last long enough to justify a high cost. Not much chance of an implant with so little bone, but the bone has been stable for 4 years, the teeth are firm and perform a vital function. I need to keep them. Someone mentioned a relationship between jaw bone quality and other bone areas - I started getting osteoporosis at around 40 yrs of age. I am going for a 3D scan of the area next week.
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Are you saying that bone grafts to provide more bone for an implant is useless because bone does not grow? If so, why do so many people have bone grafts before implants?
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4 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:
You obviously weren't in BKK early 90s thru mid-2000s...or Pattaya ❗????
That was then, this is now.
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4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:
They are actually a bit less ..........
Around the same fine as failing to stop at an accident, 5kbht.
He didn't have sex with a minor.
Age of consent is 15 for unmarried girls, and 13 for married girls.
I think you missed some key points. You need to reread the article and the charges he is facing. And if you think it is OK for a mid 20s teacher to film himself having sex with a 16 perhaps 15 year old student and remove her from her home against her parent's wishes, you are clearly deluding yourself regarding the implications of this situation for the ticktocker.
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1 hour ago, transam said:But she is not underage in Thailand.............????
Do your research. It does not matter. Don't know why you are defending this sleaze given the video he made, the age at which he recruited her, the fact he is her teacher and the parents' complaints. Not to mention the complaints and dismissal from a previous school.
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4 hours ago, transam said:We are in Thailand, he is in Thailand................????
America can take action against any citizen having underage sex overseas as can Australia.
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Heartbroken British mother accuses Thai officials of ‘lies’ in son’s alleged suicide in Thailand
in Thailand News
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Suicide is not generally performed in panic.