[lit-ideas] Re: India and doctors
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:47:00 EDT
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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