Daniel Marsh

I moved to Bangkok in my thirties and never left. What I did not expect was to spend the next decade fielding the same questions, from friends back home, from readers, from strangers who found my writing: is it actually safe to have surgery in Thailand, how do I tell a good hospital from a glossy website, what will it really cost, and what happens if something goes wrong once I’m home again?

I am not a doctor, and I have no clinic to sell you. I am a writer who happens to live where a great deal of the world’s medical travel lands, close enough to see both how good the best of it is and how badly the unwary can come unstuck. The difference, almost always, is information: knowing which questions to ask before you book a flight, not after.

Informed Surgery in Siam is where I’ve put all of that down in one place, written from the patient’s side and kept clinically honest by a doctor. The aim is simple and a little unfashionable: to help you decide clearly, including deciding not to come, rather than to talk you into anything.