If you are not sure which hospital to choose for your treatment or you want to know which doctors are the best in their field you can contact our MediThai.net contributor, Dr. Donna Robinson. What makes Dr. Donna special other than being a MediThai contributor? Well, she is a fully trained medical doctor who has been in Thailand for 18 years. She speaks Thai and is a fully qualified Thai Medical Practitioner having passed the Thai Medical Examination in 1998. Needless to say that she has an excellent knowledge about the pros and cons of hospitals, and clinics in Thailand. Her specialty is knowing which hospital is best in which field, and which individual doctor, LASIK surgeon or dentist at that hospital is the best among their specialists. This service is free of charge, and below we explain why it is so.
So, why don't we just publish that information? We do, but not at this level of detail. All the hospitals she recommends can be found on our website. Talking about specialties or individual doctors goes beyond what we feel we can maintain and keep up-to-date. At least for the time being.
If you could not find the information you were looking for, you can contact Dr. Donna directly - her email address is below. She will answer your questions to the best of her knowledge. If she doesn't know, she says so too. That's another thing we like about her.
If you decide to ask Dr. Donna to help you arrange a treatment for you, she will do so under her own name, not under the MediThai.net name. She will not charge you more than you would pay, if you arrange your treatment for yourself, but she will collect a commission somewhere along the way, from the hospital or the other service providers she brings you in touch with.
The benefit for you is that rather than just choosing a good hospital, she will recommend the best doctor in that Thai hospital. Like hospitals in all other parts of the world, hospitals in Thailand also have an A list and a B list of doctors... but they don't publish those. The price you pay for the best and most experienced doctor of the facility is often the same you pay for the others. Information is power and Dr. Donna, as a medical doctor in Thailand for 18 years as well as speaking Thai, is a true insider.
On the MediThai.net web site you also find information about other agents. Shop around! They all offer similar services you can choose from: recommend a dentist or surgeon, do the booking for you, arrange a hotel and airport pick-up and anything else you need to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Many of them also have nurses among their staff. What they tend not to have, is a medical doctor at location, who keeps himself updated on the latest developments in the medical services industry. That's what makes Dr. Donna special. Besides being a MediThai.net contributor of course.
You can reach Dr. Donna at dr.donna@medithai.net
Background Dr. Donna M. Robinson
Dr. Donna Robinson is a British national who has been a resident of Thailand for almost 18 years, she speaks Thai and is a fully qualified Thai medical practitioner having passed the Thai Medical Examination in 1998. Her primary role is GP at MedConsult Clinic. She is trained in general practice, occupational medicine and internal medicine.
From 1998-2003, Dr. Robinson was the regional medical director for Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific region, where she directed the occupational health programme for Australia, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines. Previously she worked with ASIN, a local Thai non-governmental organisation involved in family planning and AIDS projects before joining UNICEF in 1993. After three years as an AIDS project officer for UNICEF, she joined Chulalongkorn University Hospital as an advisor in medicine and undertook a two year attachment in clinical medicine. In 1998, after some two years of intensive study into Thai medical practice she passed the Thai Medical Examination which is written in Thai.
Dr. Donna Robinson is also a consultant for the BNH Hospital Travel Clinic and the British Embassy.
Dr. Donna used to be an English editor for the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Agents Journal of Thailand and Western Pacific Society of Chemotherapy from 2000 to 2005 and was a contributor to the Thai Red Cross Society's “Guide to Healthy Living in Thailand and South East Asia". She is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Round Table Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable (APEAR) which provides technical expertise on mental health programmes for corporations throughout Asia and the Pacific.
She is a member of the Committee of the Thai Ministry of Public Health for Mental Health in the workplace in Thailand. She was an organiser of the 2001 and 2002 National EAP Seminars in Thailand. Dr. Donna also co-chairs the American Chamber Health Care Commitee.
During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Dr. Donna set up a series of phone conferences with the CDC of the USA and the World Health Organisation to obtain up to date information for some leading corporations (Chevron, Dow Chemical, Cathay Pacific Airlines and Dupont) within Asia.
You can reach Dr. Donna at dr.donna@medithai.net or you can contact our nurse directly for Doctor appointments at nurse@medithai.net. Please visit also our section Need a Doctor Appointment?
