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Have mentioned in another post that Vejthani Hospital in Bangkok has targeted that area recently - have no personal knowledge of surgeons but several appear to have international experience.  They have live response on website and believe cost would be a bit less than the most expensive places.

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Hip replacement information. Canada 1 year waiting list.

Same in UK. Not life threatening. 

 

Has the OP asked how much it would be to, ahem, go private and pay? 

 

I think my father paid around 12,000 pounds in the UK. Same surgeon just a different hospital. He said he wasn't going to live much longer so the wait was quite a large proportion of what he had left.

 

I ask because the thread title gives an opinion of a failing in the Canadian system rather than a reluctance by the OP to pay to shorten the wait. 

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This will cost you between USD 10-18,000 at a private hospital in Thailand depending on whether one side, 2 sides etc. 

 

 Medical prices have gone up substantially here in the past decade.

 

A government hospital while much cheaper entails a lot of red tape, language issues and waits, making it not very practical for people who do not live here.

 

As a medical tourist coming from abroad India would be a much less expensive choice and has a good rep for ortho surgery.

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We live in Jomtien 6 months of the year, no language problems, can you recommend a surgeon and hospital, government or private. Waiting for a year in Canada is not going to work. My main concern is the quality of the operation, one leg longer and infection are the main horror stories i have discovered. 

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21 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Have mentioned in another post that Vejthani Hospital in Bangkok has targeted that area recently - have no personal knowledge of surgeons but several appear to have international experience.  They have live response on website and believe cost would be a bit less than the most expensive places.

I'm Canadian and have recommended Vejthani to some friends in Canada that are also waiting and in pain

They have a department that specializes in hip and knee replacements,

I had a total right hip replacement in Oct of 2012 and would go back there in an instant for the other side if needed

5 star treatment, private room, operating theaters that look like a Sci Fi movie set.

Went on Wednesday for an MRI, operation done on the following Monday evening, My surgeon was US trained, and very professional. Name is Dr Paiboon Chaicharncheep

Attached condo complex for a recovery period of 10 days, (they won't let you fly immediately for fear of DVT)

Cost back then was 450,000 baht for everything.

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8 hours ago, rim job said:

We live in Jomtien 6 months of the year, no language problems, can you recommend a surgeon and hospital, government or private. Waiting for a year in Canada is not going to work. My main concern is the quality of the operation, one leg longer and infection are the main horror stories i have discovered. 

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Keerati-Charoencholvanich

Prof. Keerati can also be seen at Siriraj's private wing and likely will cost about 20% less there  http://www.siphhospital.com/en/home

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/doctors/Somyot-Piyaworakhun

 

https://bhqdoctors.bdms.co.th/bdms/pages/eng/doctorProfile.php?id=1932

 

https://www.vejthani.com/doctor/dr-panithan-ruengsinsuwit/

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On 5/20/2019 at 1:18 PM, lopburi3 said:

Have mentioned in another post that Vejthani Hospital in Bangkok has targeted that area recently - have no personal knowledge of surgeons but several appear to have international experience.  They have live response on website and believe cost would be a bit less than the most expensive places.

Yes - I have been there. 2½ years ago my hip broke down (as in crawling around the house for 2 weeks). I went to Bumrungrad who MRI'd me and passed me straight over to one of their cutters who wanted to charge a whole lot of money to do an arthoplasty repair (microsurgery) at a cost even a non-medic me was suspicious of.

 

Went to Vejthani and was interviewed by a team of two ortho medics - generalist joint ortho doctors but they said they had also got feedback form the scans form one of their joint replacement surgeons. They did the expected - asked questions, manipulated my hips and reported back on the scans. They advised against surgery and suggested I try to manage out the hip first with inter-alia excercise ... and possibly down the line steroid injections. I was impressed by the set-up there - clearly quite a number of specialists in their "Total Joint Replacement Centre" which seems to be one of the hospital's leading offers.
 

I had also concurrently sent off my scans and a brief to a UK ortho surgeon, who got back to me via his excellent PA with the message not to do a thing about the surgery, which was likely unnecessary and way overpriced. I saw him a month later in Cambridge and he confirmed a recommended "manage it out another few years" approach.

 

The hip has been pretty much under control with excercise, non-inflammatory dieting and some drugs/supplements. However, I thought the other hip had broken down 8 months ago, so I returned to Vejthani and consulted one of their total joint replacement surgeons, Dr Premstien Siritanapipat. After 10 minutes of discussion and manipulation (nice guy, good English and humour) he said that my problem was most likely a spine problem not hip and passed me to one of their spine specialists, who confirmed a prolapsed (slipped) disc. I ultimately had micro-surgery on that at Bumrungrad - the Vejthani Spine Centre struck me as small, whereas the TJR Centre is impressive.

 

So, I've never actually been treated at Vejthani, but I sense from the way they handled me that they are knowledgeable and ethical. It was also pretty reasonable cost to get a consultation there - 1,300 baht for the first hip consultation and 2 x 2,000 baht for the second pair of surgeon consultations (ortho plus spine). An MRI on my hip at Rachavipa MRI Centre, Ratchadapisek - outsourced from Bum as their unit was fully occupied on the day was 10,000 baht. 

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