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Review of Bumrungrad International

Due to my personal experience, this clinic is NOT ...

Due to my personal experience, this clinic is NOT RECOMMENDED!

I underwent a cataract operation at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok in September 2016. My own lens was removed (phacoemulsification) and replaced by an artificial one (intraocular lens).
After the operation I had to find out that my vision on the operated eye was severely restricted - in contrast to before. The only reaction to my complaint were delays "on later". After "later" nothing improved, I went to another clinic to get a status of this eye.
Here I was told that the "cheapest" was made. A monofocal lens was used, which was technically developed almost 70 years ago.
Which lens should be used, I was not asked by the doctor or the clinic beforehand, nor was I informed about the differences.

The only thing that worked well after the operation in this clinic was to collect a lot of money from the patient. A doctor's fee and an examination fee were also due for each personal consultation for the purpose of making a complaint to the doctor. The only result of these speeches is "Delays to later". No explanation for the existing problem.
In November 2016 I wrote a complaint to the management of the Bumrungrad-Klinik. There was no answer!
In July 2017 there was another trial and oral complaint from me at the clinic. Again, there were no definitive statements regarding a solution to the problem. But a bill for more than ten thousand Baht!

In the meantime I have personally submitted a petition in Bumrungrad, there has not been an answer to date. It's been a year now!

I would like to use this description to warn all those who travel to Thailand to seek medical treatment here!
Certainly the costs are lower than in Europe or America. But what use is this if you have saved some money in the end and suffer permanent physical injury?

This is a question EVERYONE should ask himself before a medical intervention in Thailand!!
There are many modern medical devices in this clinic and so this clinic makes a western impression at first.
However, the knowledge and training of doctors is obviously limited.

The Bumrungrad-Klinik is obviously a facility to generate a lot of money on its own, which is also the experience of many other evaluators at this point (higher costs for medication, wrong treatment, etc.).
As you can read in the reviews, simple illnesses have been treated wrongly, which concerns me now!

I'm personally giving you this good advice from my own experience with this clinic:
When planning a medical treatment, always take into account that in Thailand, the laws which protect patients from medical errors and regulate the legal consequences are predominantly absent or that a foreigner cannot find a consistent judge.
In the end, you can only try it in Thailand on the way of goodwill...

But if the clinic or the doctor turn deaf and dumb, as in my case? There is no legal remedy in Thailand!

A doctor in Thailand is always a "guru in white coat" from the point of view of the Thais and comes in place immediately after a Buddhist monk. Thus, nobody in Thailand will officially intervene against the mistake by a doctor.

A more extensive surgery in a clinic in Thailand is therefore a computational example, which often ends in a minus calculation due to my personal experience.
In the end, it can be quite possible that the total cost of medical treatment will be far higher than the total cost of medical treatment in your home country if you end up having to be treated again in the same matter in your home country.

A major medical intervention in Thailand can become an uncertain game of health for these reasons, which I personally had to experience live.
Conclusion: By no means the result to be expected according to the current state of modern western medicine and the sight lost for me. Blamed by this clinic !