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Tourism proves hazardous to Thai hospitals' financial health

Japan shares pain as arrivals boom and unpaid medical bills balloon

KENTARO IWAMOTO, APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT and RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writers | Thailand

PHUKET, Thailand/TOKYO -- The tourism high season has begun on southern Thailand's resort island of Phuket. For the head of the island's biggest hospital, the coming months will be anything but a vacation.

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