[lit-ideas] Re: India and doctors
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:29:57 +0100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3149454.stm
is about Indian hospitals and health tourism
the Indian doctors who come here tend to be really rather smart
but not so much so as British doctors of Indian origin, perhaps.
EY>In general, the Indian doctors coming to the US are not very
good,
you don't test them? the ones who come here have to pass a test and
also pay for training here. BTW some may be heading to the US
as a new EU rule (or perhaps the enforcement of an old one)
means that they can't be hired in preference to an EU national.
That they may be better qualified and speak better English makes
no difference. And scandalously, the rule applies to doctors
already here, who've passed the initial test, and paid for training,
in the hope and perhaps expectation of getting a job here.
The BMA has protested about this.
(I am reliably informed that it is not that easy for Indian
doctors to advance to the rank of consultant anyway.)
EY>and tend to be arrogant
some Indian doctors are more arrogant towards patients than British
doctors -- a cultural thing, I imagine -- some aren't but are a
bit aloof/withdrawn, expecting, I assume from the way they
are when they relax, racism. But certainly as a rule they
aren't as matey as British doctors.
British doctors of Indian origin are the same as British doctors of non-Indian
origin,
like your second-generation Indian doctors.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: [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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