You’d be forgiven for hearing the words “holistic medicine” and immediately thinking of an old lady, draped in stone necklaces and singing chants over burning incense, but that’s not the idea at Bangkok Hospital’s new Expat Care Center.
“It means looking at our patients as a person, and not just the diseases they might be dealing with,” says Dr. Pojnicha Mekaroonkamol, Internist at Expat Care Center, Bangkok Hospital. “The technical phrase is ‘biopsychosocial’. We take care of their physical health problems, but also pay attention to their emotions, mental health and even the social aspect in terms of their caretakers or knowing their family members.”
It’s a novel idea to many foreign expats, who are accustomed to wandering into their local hospital for a brief conversation with a doctor they have never met, getting a test or prescription, and…
