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popshirt, on 2009-06-29 15:12:10, said:

But it's SO THICK you can't put it in a toaster! I have tried to tell them - I get that ';who do you think you are', Thai look. Sometimes I can get the bread uncut - I buy more than usual then. But it is farang bread, not that sweet Thai stuff that you wouldn't feed to ducks. It's too thick for toast and twice as thick as sandwich slices. At least leave some uncut for those who don't think the world's greatest invention was sliced bread!

This is very old news for any patient treated in a hospital. I hope that those in an outpatient situation, capable of getting their own medication, get a script or note of the name of the medication from the physician to obtain the medication from a pharmacy outside the hospital. The mark up on medications within the hospital situation is a bloody disgrace. And over-prescription would have me suspect that physicians are on a kickback but would I suggest that???

LomSak27, on 2010-06-22 11:38:53, said:

I'm glad you can classify me in any way from my posting. I have no political allegiance in Thailand - it too alien for me to understand. I was just commenting on the coverage I saw on the BBC from abroad which did not take into account any of the complicated social and political problems that beset the country. I have much sympathy for the real Red Shirt protesters but I have little sympathy with their strident leadership and none whatsover with the paramilitary black-shirted brigade. That said that is not the topic. I was only and still am only commenting on the coverage from the BBC (and I expect Australian ABC) for not taking a wider more informed perspective - after all they did have 2 months to do just a little research!

I am a long term resident of Thailand (15 years) who was watching the only "live" coverage I could get from my hospital bed outside Thailand on BBC World. I was STUNNED at the coverage. I saw it as one-sided and with none of the analysis I would expect from a news organisation I respect and admire. When I read the article in The Nation this morning I felt my opinion to have been vindicated.

I don't want to take sides in the political argument only on the coverage which had none of the depth we got a few weeks later when Athens had violent riots which were covered with cause and effect commentary.

I think the one-sided coverage of the situation in Bangkok and Thailand as a whole for this event meant that many people world-wide remain ignorant of the many problems besetting the country which need to be discussed if only to get both sides of the political argument to look beyond their personal bank balances and spread some of the wealth fairly and equitably to areas of need. But that said the Army, for whatever reason and on whoever's orders, deserves congratulations for its handling of an awful situation which would not have been tolerated in many of our more politically "sophisticated" societies as the article quite correctly points out.