[lit-ideas] Re: India and doctors

This is so confusing to me.  It directly contradicts a newsmag TV  piece I 
saw a couple months ago which spent an hour exploring the hospitals in  India 
and comparing them to ours.  According to this piece, the care,  techniques, 
survival rates, success rates, etc., were significantly higher and  cost was 
unbelievably lower -- they gave an example of a guy w/ a heart  condition 
needing 
surgery which would have cost something like $60,000 here and  he went to a 
hospital in India and it cost something like $5,000 (my figures are  very rough 
as it was several weeks ago and I don't trust my memory, but the  discrepancy 
was at least that of those figures).  They also highlighted the  extraordinary 
cleanliness and comfort ("cozy") aspect of the hospitals.  I  think I need to 
google and see if I can find the piece I saw on-line -- it was  on one of the 
broadcast channels -- Dateline or 60 Minutes or something  similar.
 
Julie Krueger
 

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In the NYC hospital where my friend works, the  Indian 
doctors tried to set up their caste systems in the hospital. 
Low  caste Indian doctors would get extra work shoveled on 
them by their  higher-caste coworkers.

In general, the Indian doctors coming to the US  are not very 
good, have no people skills, and tend to be arrogant and  
practice poor hygiene. You have to imagine the scene where 
300 pound  Bronx or Harlem guys complain about the smelly and 
rude resident physicians  and the administration has 
routinely to issue memos about the importance of  wearing 
clean lab coats.

By their third-year here, most of the Indian  physicians have 
realized they can't push lower-caste physicians and women  
around, they wash more, their English improves, and they 
understand  more. Second-generation American physicians of 
Indian ancestry have none of  these qualities, needless to 
say. Ah, the melting  pot.

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