Re: Medical Tourism

In article <1114777225.733888.320330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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>
> What amazes me is the number of patients I speak to who think their
> doctor is the best. Wherever you go all over the country, people speak
> of their doc as the best so-and-so in the country. You probably have
> the "best" cardiologist right where you live. And, somebody else will
> tell us the best is in NY or Canada. Patient's experiences and
> judgements about good doctors are notoriously unreliable. OTOH, they
> are usually dead-on when it's about bad doctors. The point is that most
> patients tend to suspend their common judgement when they walk in the
> door and stick with a bad doctor much longer than they should.
>
> I wonder how doctors will react as the outsourcing of health care
> continues to grow?
>
> I don't know if you are more likely to be cut up by a Medical Tourism
> hack than you are by one in Oregon, but the possibility exists no
> matter where you go.
>
> -elgoog

50 % of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.

Bill

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