Samitivej Hospital loses malpractice court fight

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Samitivej Hospital loses malpractice court fight

Family get B8m for mum, baby dying during labour

Published: 25 Jan 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

A court has ordered Samitivej Hospital and two of its doctors to jointly pay a family more than 8 million baht in compensation for malpractice in the case a woman who died in labour 16 years ago.

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered Samitivej Plc, which owns Samitivej Hospital, anaesthetist Dr Suphak Janjampee and Dr Chalat Tujinda to jointly pay 8.3 million baht plus annual interest of 7.5% to the Sereeyothin family for the loss of Jureerat Sereeyothin 16 years ago.

In addition, the court also ordered the three defendants to jointly pay the family's legal fees, which totalled 150,000 baht.

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wilko
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Discussion 8 : 02 Feb 2012 at 16.068
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Utterly disgraceful.

So many people come to Thailand without realising the serious problems they will have if they receive incorrect or inappropriate treatment.
I have witnessed several people who are lying with problems foisted upon them by callous or incompetent Doctors in Thailand and so very often there is no practical redress at all..........I guess the hospitals are banking on any plaintiffs being dead before a court makes a judgement?
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Discussion 7 : 25 Jan 2012 at 14.557
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Hope that next win case of such will not have to wait for another 16 years
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Discussion 6 : 25 Jan 2012 at 10.506
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To fight in court for 16 years is pathetic .This hospital makes more than that in an hour .
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Discussion 5 : 25 Jan 2012 at 10.215
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"I can say that this is not only a victory for Khun Burin, but also for Thai society," said Mrs Preeyanant, who has spent the past 20 years seeking compensation for her son who became disabled, allegedly due to a medical error during her own labour."

This sums it up, for those of us who have been around Thailand for a while, this is quite a unusual & welcome verdict. Perhaps, as D@1 notes, institutions will not fight, but settle quickly & fairly.
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Discussion 4 : 25 Jan 2012 at 10.164
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Court decisions like this one are necessary to make the “mighty” understand that there is a limit and then they have to take responsibility whether they like it or not. It also gives me confidence that poorer people still have a chance to win.
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Discussion 3 : 25 Jan 2012 at 08.433
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"I can say that this is not only a victory for Khun Burin, but also for Thai society," I second that. Its time the ivory tower syndrome is being addressed.
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Discussion 2 : 25 Jan 2012 at 07.302
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It only took 16 years?
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Discussion 1 : 25 Jan 2012 at 07.171
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Samitivej fought this case for 16 years. What will this do to its reputation? This case reflects the common ignorance in Thailand of the negative effects of poor customer service. If the customer feels aggrieved, there's no point fighting and "beating" the customer as you will lose his/her business plus that of many others who hear about it on the internet or TV. Channel 3 is following Mazda's amazing fight to the death over a simple factory car paint error, which it won't take responsibility for. Of course this will affect their sales, but they don't seem to understand this. In this age of social media and the internet, companies should understand that when you "beat" (or try to "beat") a customer, you will lose a lot of business afterwards.
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