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You know you’re getting old when you book a holiday vacation
package to Thailand but your reservations aren’t at a beach resport but at a hospital.
For Christmas, Jeff and I are getting body tune ups. Bangkok is a medical tourism destination and
Bangkok’s Bumrungrad is the Four Seasons of hospitals. http://www.bumrungrad.com/thailandhospital
What does Medical Tourism Mean?
It means big money for Bangkok and little money out of your
pocket: medical procedures are about the
tenth of the cost in Asia as they are in the states. Plus, you can get “extra value deals” on
medical procedures, from colon cleansing to liposuction. The colonscopy package makes a great stocking stuffer! http://www.bumrungrad.com/en/digestive-diseases/colonoscopy-package-5
The medical odyssey begins a Bangkok airport. Bumrungrad had
its own check-in/information center. We stopped there and completed our first round of paperwork. The hospital representatives
booked us a private limo to the hospital. And, if your medical bill is higher than 5000 baht, Bumrungrad will pick up the tab for the ride.
People from all over the world come to Bumungrad for
bodywork. They include Mideast women wearing long black Abayas (keep in mind it’s 85 degrees
here…in DECEMBER); Americans in shorts and flip flops, Germans in their pressed
jeans, skin tight Ts and designer
eyewear, and an assortment of mid-life crisisers from assorted countries.
Would we rather be on a beach than on a bed pan? Absolutely.
But this hospital has a Starbucks, Au Bon Pain and McDonald’s on premise. You can share a hospital room with Ronald!
They also have a waiting room for monks and a prayer room for Muslims.
I am really impressed by the nurses. They actually wear nursing
hats and silk skirts and fitted jackets similar to flight
attendants. They look healthy not hefty. They aren’t cracking gum or eating
Popeye’s chicken while doing your paperwork, either. And not one of them had fingernails sporting
the acrylic equivalent of a velvet painting.
Unlike other vacation spots, “I don’t wish you were here”. But if you do have to get something poked, prodded,
nipped or tucked, check out Bumrungrad.