Medical Innovation in India: No Facility Fees; $1800 heart surgeries

[drusso]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...ery-india-america-disruption-column/97056938/

"To date, doctors and hospitals have been spared the pain of disruption. But that day is ending, and I predict that even people looking for it to happen are gazing in the wrong direction. They expect disruption to be led by companies like Google and Apple or maybe entrepreneurial start-ups. Based on my time in India, they should be looking globally."

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[bedrock]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...ery-india-america-disruption-column/97056938/

"To date, doctors and hospitals have been spared the pain of disruption. But that day is ending, and I predict that even people looking for it to happen are gazing in the wrong direction. They expect disruption to be led by companies like Google and Apple or maybe entrepreneurial start-ups. Based on my time in India, they should be looking globally."

Anybody that goes to India for open-heart surgery is crazy. You are literally risking your life.

 

[Aether2000]

Yes, but some people won't die having this surgery in India. For the insurance carriers in the US, they might consider referring their patients to India if the success to kill ratio isn't too high....

 

[PainDrain]

I did my intern year with someone from India and they described how in some hospitals the power would go out randomly and ventilators were few and far between. Patients' families would have to manually bag them in shifts. Also said you had to pay extra for a ventilator. Granted this was at a local hospital for those of lesser means but I will take a hard pass on surgery in India.

 

[lonelobo]

plus your follow up appt is a bitch to get to

 

[Stim4me]

India is the "haves and have nots"... or "extreme" parallel healthcare system that we discuss regularly. Not comparable to the level of socialized healthcare or US health care.

Delhi heart institute is costly and outcomes are likely better. Grandmother did well after cabg there. But you need money.

City and local hospitals are scary, you are hanging your own heparin...

 

[Ducttape]

are we discussing medical tourism to India? its been around a long time. well, at least 2009...
http://www.jnu.ac.in/faculty/sreddy/Medical Tourism in India.pdf

so what is so new?

clearly stim makes an important point. if you are going to be a medical tourist, stick to the known well-documented sites. the healthcare between what a native and what a medical tourist from US would get are night and day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/india-medical-tourism-dra_n_322778.html (note that article is from 2009, and no, it wont cause your computer screen to disintegrate if you view an article from huffingtonpost stim )