Break A Leg

[Mtnjim]

Break A Leg


Blue Ridge

Paper Products of Canton, Ohio, is considering a plan where
they would pay the air fare and lodging for an

employee and a family
member to have the employee undergo Surgery in an accredited hospital
in India and then

allow the employee to keep 25% of the savings.

This could be a bonus worth thousands of dollars to an

employee.

A $50,000 hip procedure in the US would cost about $18,000 in India
including airfare and lodging.

$8,000 would then go to the employee.

"We're not exporting health care to India as much as importing


competition in the United States," said company President Tom
Keesling, a former hospital CEO who helped launch

IndUShealth last
year.



Citizen-Times (North Carolina)

13-Jun-06
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=B0200660612053

[bronzie]

I personally wouldnt want to

undergo surgery in India, im sure the doctors are fine and well trained, but I dont think the post operative care

would be as good as in the USA , Australia or Europe.

And theres the stinking hot humid climate to deal with.

And lots of Mosquitos.

No offence Indians.

[Mtnjim]

I personally wouldnt

want to undergo surgery in India, im sure the doctors are fine and well trained, but I dont think the post operative

care would be as good as in the USA , Australia or Europe.

I saw a segment on the news magazine "60

minutes" a while back and at least the places they went, the patients are put up at 1st class hotels for recovery.

[bronzie]

I see thier point, but luxury in

a hotel is diferent to bieng under observation at a highly modern hospital, that has doctors on had to monitor the

patient and the right expertise and equipment at hand just in case of an emergency. Surgey is still Surgey at the

end of the day.

In Australia thier are alot of cosmetic surgery holidays that people take to thailand, most

proceures are done on a resort, and that after the surgey people can sit back suntan by a pool drinking cocktails.

There is a huge danger here for a lack of post operative support and big risk of infection thinking that surgery =

laying by the pool drinking.

I have read of some really nasty complications from the surgery that couldnt

be rectified in these countires, and patiens have to result in going back home barely alive too be operated on

because of botched jobs and infections or complications.

[slickracer]

yes but theres a different

between serving a patient and trying to make money (it is a bussiness too you know, espetially with the capitalist

mind frame) i read an artical in psycology today that talked about how doctors would rescadual checkbacks that are

unneeded just to make money.

[The Real FTR]

I have no doubt about that!



Hospitals here don't keep you, anyway. They kick you out the very second the anaesthesia wears off. It's

not like there's really any post-op care to miss.