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📰 From the news 1 Nov 2026

A 500-baht consultation, a 30,000-baht deposit, 18 entries on a tourist visa: the South Korean 'doctor' arrested in a Bangkok hotel, April 2026

Thailand's Medical Profession Act makes it an offence to practise medicine without a licence from the Medical Council of Thailand, and a licence from another c…

📍 Bangkok, Thailand

📰 From the news 12 Oct 2026

Raided in May, reopened, raided again in October: the Pattaya shophouse clinic with no licensed doctor, and the second clinic whose two 'doctors' fled by car

Pattaya, in Thailand's Chon Buri province, treats many foreign residents and visitors. A doctor there must be registered with the Medical Council of Thailand, …

📍 Pattaya, Thailand

📰 From the news 1 Oct 2026

A Russian "doctor" treating tourists in Phuket without a licence, and the clinic in Bangkok where a man with a long criminal record was found working as a physician

Thailand's two long-running Bangkok clinic cases, the ten-year and twenty-year impostors, are recorded elsewhere on this site. The cases of 2025 show the same …

📍 Phuket, Thailand

📰 From the news 24 Sep 2026

Ten years at one clinic, twenty at another: Bangkok's false doctors, the licences they did not have, and the real doctors' names on their prescriptions

Thailand has an established medical profession, a licensing council and a market in private clinics large enough for impostors to hide in for decades. The Bang…

📍 Bangkok, Thailand

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A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.

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