Urologist

[johnb 0]

Looking for any recommendations for a Urologist, in either Pattaya or Bangkok. Currently using PIH urologist. Thank you

[friendlyric6411 0]

Are you taking the piss

[jacko 8,822]

Are you taking the piss

No, likely he will be giving it or is holding on to it more than he would like.

 

If there is a specialist in town, he would without doubt be working at the Bangkok Pattaya. Likely all the big hospitals have a resident urologist. You obviously aren't happy with the PIH one.

Edited September 21, 2008 by jacko

[johnb 0]

Best recommendations indicate Bunrungrad in Bangkok. Thanks

[jackcorbett 2]

I just got out of Pattaya Bangkok Hospital where I just had a kidney stone removed from my bladder at the entrance to the urethra. And I have to say the place is absolutely first rate. During the course of diagnosing the problem I saw two surgeons, one cardiologist, and one urologist and I was very happy with the doctors. In my opinion they definitely have the specialists here and the equipment necessary to get a first rate job done. And I'd say that suite I stayed in on the corner of the 10th floor with its great view of the city must be about 100 square meters in size. I definitely recommend the place, and I'm damn glad I got this done here instead of in the U.S.

[CheshireTom 1,377]

Best recommendations indicate Bunrungrad in Bangkok. Thanks

 

If your insurance is paying or you don't mind getting ripped off then it is worth considering. Trouble is that you go in with toothache and end up with heart-bypass surgery. Just in case.

 

Most of the urologists at Bumrungrad visit for a day or two a week. The rest of the time they are working at places like Vejthani which will typically set you back 50-60% of what it would cost at Bumrungrad.

Edited September 21, 2008 by CheshireTom

[BigDUSA 71]

I just got out of Pattaya Bangkok Hospital where I just had a kidney stone removed from my bladder at the entrance to the urethra. And I have to say the place is absolutely first rate. During the course of diagnosing the problem I saw two surgeons, one cardiologist, and one urologist and I was very happy with the doctors. In my opinion they definitely have the specialists here and the equipment necessary to get a first rate job done. And I'd say that suite I stayed in on the corner of the 10th floor with its great view of the city must be about 100 square meters in size. I definitely recommend the place, and I'm damn glad I got this done here instead of in the U.S.

 

How well did the medical staff speak English?

[Bazle 1,501]

I just got out of Pattaya Bangkok Hospital where I just had a kidney stone removed from my bladder at the entrance to the urethra. And I have to say the place is absolutely first rate. During the course of diagnosing the problem I saw two surgeons, one cardiologist, and one urologist and I was very happy with the doctors. In my opinion they definitely have the specialists here and the equipment necessary to get a first rate job done. And I'd say that suite I stayed in on the corner of the 10th floor with its great view of the city must be about 100 square meters in size. I definitely recommend the place, and I'm damn glad I got this done here instead of in the U.S.

I hope your recovery is going well.

 

Out of curiousity, how was the stone removed? Was it blasted? Did you have keyhole surgery? Did you have regular surgery?

[jackcorbett 2]

Big D---The doctors spoke excellent English. So did the anesthetist who was very good about talking over with me my options just prior to my surgery. She asked me if I wanted to be put to sleep while giving me the alternative of having the lower half of my body frozen. So I discussed with her at length how she would handle the procedure while I was awake. I'd have an IV in me, she told me and if I wanted to sleep for awhile she could give me a little more of the sedative. I asked her to just give me enough to make me less nervous. Soon after that she gave me the needle right in my spine. It hurt less than I expected. Right before the operation they had me in a room where they readied me for the operation. There must have been around twenty gals in there all of them wearing these hospital caps that resembled shower caps. Several of the girls came up to my little row away. One introduced herself as Jam. She was nearly always smiling and laughing when she was around me. Jam said, "I'll be with you during the operation." Then Jam introduced me to another girl, this one fairly young and Jam said..."She very ugly." Well, she certainly was not. Anyway, Jam was quite the comedian. A third girl came over and introduced herself to me and told me she would not be with me in the operating room but that she would be with me right afterward. She was very attractive, and she wound up being the only girl in the recovery room with me after the operation.

 

Anyway, I wound up being temporarily being paralyzed from the waist down. Couldn't even move my toes for at least two hours afterward. In the operating room the doctor put a cushioned barrier over my torso so I could not see him operating on me or anything straight on ahead of me. Well, I wound up with Jam on my left during the operation and the anesthetist on my right which allowed me to converse with both of the women during the procedure which lasted around an hour and a half. Meanwhile there was a television set off to my left so I could watch the entire operation on TV. But it was limited to what the little camera was viewing that had been thrust up my penis into my bladder. Meanwhile the doctor would every now and then narrate what exactly he was doing and what I was viewing on television. So I got to watch that one centimeter kidney stone being slowly blasted into little pieces on t.v. while I watched all the pretty girls around me.

 

I didn't have to pay one penny out of pocket. Bupa paid it all in full. Some of my nurses were great lookers and very nice. Only stayed one night, and had it not been for my girlfriend being there with me, even though I had a catheter up my penis, I would have been trying to get something going with at least one of them. So I was in pain, and then again, I wasn't in pain whatsoever. All in all, Pattaya Bangkok was first rate in all departments.

 

Bazle....thanks for asking. The recovery seems to be going very quickly. I nearly did a half mile swimming in the pool today but wound up just shooting the bull the whole time with my neighbor discussing politics, the financial crisis, and so on. Only thing is the doctor asked me not to drink beer for two weeks, and I'm sure tempted to hang one on.

 

Here's a few pictures if anyone is interested in what the rooms look like at Pattaya Bangkok, what kind of view you can get from your windows or balconies there and so on. Sorry that I don't have any of the pretty nurses. Several of my gf however who took most of the pictures. She would have gone crazy had I started taking pictures of the prettier nurses, but just take my word for it. Some were knockouts. Pattaya Bangkok Hospital pictures

Edited September 22, 2008 by jackcorbett

[johnb 0]

JackCorbett, thank you for the detailed information. Can you recall the name of the urologist? Thanks

[jackcorbett 2]

My girlfriend just wrote the name down for me in Thai. "Teti" is what she wrote.

 

What happened with me is I first started experiencing pain where I had two hernia operations in the U.S. So I simply called the hospital for an appointment. Right off, and I didn't even have to wait five minutes, I was ushered up to the general surgery department where a few minutes later I was taken into a surgeon's office. I then had to submit a urine sample, and soon after that I was admitted into the urologist's office. So in my case, the first diagnosis was that I had some type of urinary tract infection, thus involving the urologist early on. Anyway, that's one of the great things about this hospital. You can be talking to a surgeon and then a few minutes later be talking to a urologist. This way the combined expertise of more than one specialist can be consolidated quite quickly so little time or extra money is wasted.

[Tel 0]

I also had a kidney stone done earlier this year at Bangkok Pattata Hospital. The urologist was called Dr. Jimmy. Jimmy is his nickname. His real name is half a kilometer long. All the staff know who Dr.Jimmy is.

[jackcorbett 2]

Someone emailed me to provide a little more information on the kidney stone procedure that I've already gone into gory detail on.

 

First...the cost was around 90,000 baht but do keep in mind this was not for a basic room, which would still be a very deluxe room in the U.S. As I mentioned Bupa paid for every last baht.

 

I just went into Pattaya Bangkok yesterday to do one more ultrasound test, have a urine sample tested, and a final consultation with my surgeon who basically told me to go out and drink beer, swim laps, live a normal life and to come back in one year to have my prostate tested. I really like the surgeon and I have to say I will miss the place. (and one of the two girls who administered part of the ultrasound test was really cute.) If you really want to be around a lot of cute girls, believe me, Pattaya Bangkok beats the go-go clubs any day.

 

The person who emails me asked me how much the operation hurt? I didn't feel a thing once they basically paralyzed me from the waist down. But once the drug wore off and I was back in the room that catheter they stuck down my penis didn't feel all that comfortable and it did hurt whenever I tried to move around. But the next day they pulled that out. It hurt for a few seconds when the pretty nurse pulled it out. That felt pretty weird as if something was being sucked right out of me. Not long after she yanked the catheter out the hospital sent me home. I put my girlfriend on the back of my motorbike and drove the bike home myself.

 

For the next few days I'd be pissing a little blood. But drinking a lot of water helped there. Once again the person emailing me for more detail asked me to get into the exact operating procedure a little more. As I already mentioned they stick this tube down one's penis. There's a little camera on this tube or sensor for a camera and an object that emits the shock waves that batter the kidney stone into smaller pieces. The doctor describes it as an air pressure wave. Anyway, nothing happens in the bladder until it meets resistance and that resistance will be the kidney stone which is usually composed of largely calcium. But the calcium is hard and it resists the pressure against it the is applied by the instrument that's been stuck down that tube. So it takes quite awhile for the stone to be blasted into pieces. The doctor then uses a little caged device to fish out the larger pieces of the kidney stone. In fact I've got these pieces still in a little bottle the doctor gave me later on in my room. But there are still a number of much smaller pieces of that kidney stone that are not initially removed. But they are supposed to come out as one urinates over the next few days, or even possibly a month or even two months. That's one of the reasons one pisses a little blood over the next few days. A few days ago I looked at my urine in the toilet. There were as usual a lot of bubbles but it appeared to me there were a number of very small particles floating at the top of my urine that looked like very small pieces of glass or silicon. When I asked the doctor about those yesterday he told me I was correct. That they were very small pieces of what was still left from my kidney stone.

 

Let's see, what more is there to tell? ABout five to seven days after the operation I boom boomed my girlfiend and this time the blood was much more copious. My girlfriend told me it was about the way she is when she's having her period. But the boom boom was good and well worth the blood bath. AFter two weeks now, I'd say I'm back to normal. No more bleeding. Went out and got wasted last night as I hadn't had a beer in two weeks. I had two hernia operations a few years ago in the U.S. During the last one as I lay on the operating table as the anesthetist prepared to put me under, I joked around with all the doctors saying to them, "I'm going to a titty bar tonight." And I did. I went to my favorite titty bar where I cut up with all the dancers I knew in the place, had a few beers, and so on. But the recovery time was slower because after a hernia operation you are not supposed to do anything such as lifting anything very heavy for over a month. Such is not the case with this operation. I swam one mile the day before yesterday for instance and that was the fourth time I swam since the operation. On the other hand, there's no way I wanted to be anywhere near a bar the night after this operation or the night after that either.

 

But once again if you gotta have this procedure done I can highly recommend Pattaya Bangkok. They might be expensive but they are very thorough over there. They have the right specialists in my opinion right there and the very expensive equipment so many other hospitals lack.....for example the MRI machine which I've heard costs a million dollars. The place inside doesn't even look like a hospital...There are even chandeliers hanging down from the ceiling in the first main room where you will come into where the reception counter is located and these chandeliers are the kind you would expect to find in a royal palace belonging to the Romonov dynasty. You don't get the normal hospital smells you find so often in the U.S. and the entire place is bright and cheery. And during one's stay here one is cushioned with kind tender loving care with the nurses looking in on you often and attending to your every need. And if you are asleep when mealtime arrives the nurses will just leave your food on a tray and just let you sleep on. After all there's a microwave in your room which either your girlfriend or a nurse will be glad to use to warm up our food.

[Bazle 1,501]

This might be slightly OT but might be of interest to anyone with a kidney stone.

 

I had a large one dealt with above 5 years ago here in London. It had grown too large to blast and if I had relied on the National Health Service I would have had conventional surgery. That would have been painful with a long recovery period.

 

Fortunately, I'm covered by private medical insurance. I ended up having keyhole surgery and was only in hospital for 3 days and back at work after a week. At that time, there were only 3 surgeons in the whole of the UK doing this procedure. Fortunately, I had been admitted as an emergency case to a NHS hospital where one of them worked, so got to know about this.

 

If you have a stone too big to blast, do enquire about this.