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I hate to go out on a limb and say this guys...but some countries do have better medical education than other countries.
There is a reason US residencies don't put foreign medical grads in their most competitive slots, that is just the way it is.
When some rich oil sheik needs a transplant, he is not looking to go to the Dominican Republic, for instance. No offense to Hispaniola.....
Funny, here, we get a lot of Japanese nationals who request a "Japanese doctor only" fairly often, they are not shy about the request either. "I am paying, and I want X"
Plus there are some true stories about foreign medical schools, like my friends in Grenada that had to keep their cadavers for anatomy class in their bathtubs part of the time.
Often, the best specialists go to the most prestigious programs and the folks with the big bucks tend to seek them out.---I am sure that is true in the Phillipines to some degree as well. And once we have socialized medicine here---you watch---medical tourism for our wealthy will be one thing that happens, it is already a booming business and a sign of the times.
As managed care becomes more dominant here , gone are many of the private suites and amenities that people with enough money want to pay for and receive. Americans are finding their dollar goes further in other countries, often places dominantly "haves and have-nots" where it is acceptable to cater to people with the purchasing power.
The most talented physicians will always be found where the money is, in general. They want the most advanced technology for one thing, and it is expensive.
There is a reason US residencies don't put foreign medical grads in their most competitive slots, that is just the way it is.
When some rich oil sheik needs a transplant, he is not looking to go to the Dominican Republic, for instance. No offense to Hispaniola.....
Funny, here, we get a lot of Japanese nationals who request a "Japanese doctor only" fairly often, they are not shy about the request either. "I am paying, and I want X"
Plus there are some true stories about foreign medical schools, like my friends in Grenada that had to keep their cadavers for anatomy class in their bathtubs part of the time.
Often, the best specialists go to the most prestigious programs and the folks with the big bucks tend to seek them out.---I am sure that is true in the Phillipines to some degree as well. And once we have socialized medicine here---you watch---medical tourism for our wealthy will be one thing that happens, it is already a booming business and a sign of the times.
As managed care becomes more dominant here , gone are many of the private suites and amenities that people with enough money want to pay for and receive. Americans are finding their dollar goes further in other countries, often places dominantly "haves and have-nots" where it is acceptable to cater to people with the purchasing power.
The most talented physicians will always be found where the money is, in general. They want the most advanced technology for one thing, and it is expensive.
Hemlon
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Excellent point.
There are some medical facilities outside the USA that I will gladly go to for certain procedures. I try to avoid my own hospital here on Catalina.
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which ones, and where?
I actually enjoy being specific. I hear Brazil is the bomb for butt implants.
Let's say your ticker needs a new valve, Bill, Harvard man. Where would you take your heart? Assuming the wallet is flush, of course.
Cause I'd be going to NY, LA or Houston.
Dental implants? I might be looking to go abroad and save ten grand. Your kid gets cancer, you want to be in the United States of America, period.
Hemlon
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Hank49
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This is very true. But a lot of the reason is not so much the doctor's training as it is availability of state of the art equipment and training for such. The US may have the best tech and money for the latest treatments of certain disease, but what percent of patients actually need that? The lady's character from the TV show obviously didn't.
I think the average treatment for people in the US has deteriorated in the last 20 years. It's not the doctors and training that's at fault. It's the system and all the insurance and managed care or whatever..... There is no continuity. My mom had lung cancer and was going to 4 different doctors. We'd show up and they're like, "OK, and what are you here for? You're....uhh..." It was like the doctors don't communicate at all. Some were great. Some sucked.
Hemlon
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True!
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Hank, either you have the best care available and a shot at getting it by making certain choices to optimize that....
or
you have more health care for more people and give up excellence. It is a tough question, but what your choice is will be determined by if you sit below the average or above the average. All I am saying is that our private pay people will always go where the care is the best and they can buy it, wherever that is in the world.
Right now that is here, but that is changing. For one thing, as medicine gets less lucrative, the superstars of medicine are choosing other fields for careers. Sure..you will always have the benevolent types that want to bring families together and deliver babies in bathtubs, but those are not the same guys getting ****-ons from doing big cardiac surgeries, from what I have seen.
Those guys are competitive, money seeking missiles for the most part. Most *normal* people just don't want to stay up all night and miss every one of their kid's birthdays and holidays unless there is a big pay-off. There needs to be the pay-off or nobody will want to do it--it is a very tough life.
or
you have more health care for more people and give up excellence. It is a tough question, but what your choice is will be determined by if you sit below the average or above the average. All I am saying is that our private pay people will always go where the care is the best and they can buy it, wherever that is in the world.
Right now that is here, but that is changing. For one thing, as medicine gets less lucrative, the superstars of medicine are choosing other fields for careers. Sure..you will always have the benevolent types that want to bring families together and deliver babies in bathtubs, but those are not the same guys getting ****-ons from doing big cardiac surgeries, from what I have seen.
Those guys are competitive, money seeking missiles for the most part. Most *normal* people just don't want to stay up all night and miss every one of their kid's birthdays and holidays unless there is a big pay-off. There needs to be the pay-off or nobody will want to do it--it is a very tough life.
