"John Kulp" wrote in message
news:46bc9503.280656512@news20.forteinc.com...
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:30:22 GMT, "William Black"
> wrote:
>>My experience in the past twelve months or so is that these days if you
>>chat
>>to a European passenger going to India there's about a 30-50% chance that
>>they're from the USA and they're going for surgery followed by a couple of
>>quiet weeks on a remote Goan beach for about a quarter of the cost of the
>>just the surgery in a US hospital.
>>
>
> They are also taking a BIG chance is doing so. Where they will have
> no recourse for botched procedures, no knowledge of infectious
> condiditons and all the rest.
Well if someone can't afford a heart bypass in the US and can in India I
somehow don't think they'd be terribly bothered by ephemeral shit like that.
'Don't go to Indio for your op... Die in the USA in total safety...'
People can do what they want, of
> course, but these overseas systems, including Europe, are hardly
> perfect. Long waiting lists, lack of screening, etc. are all
> problems. Just as an example, a Danish friend of mine died last year
> of a heart attack and had never been adequately screened for
> blockages, which I was done for last year as a precaucion, even though
> he had a familial history of heart conditions (I didn't), smoked, had
> a high stress job, etc. Hardly good medicine even if fully covered is
> it? And, contrary to popular belief, it's hardly free. Europeans pay
> through the nose for these systems and, if they work like this in
> Scandinavia, it doesn't give me much faith they work better elsewhere.
> Also, much more advanced research in general is done in the US than
> elsewhere that these systems don't always access until much later than
> the US.
I think you have unresolved issues here...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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