Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by andrewparker on Monday July 29, 2013 @06:33AM (#6120200)

>> A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US.

This might be objectively true (which you could reasonably determine through some combination of standardize testing and surgery complications/outcomes), but if you ask 100 people on the street in US whether they would prefer to see a US MD or an Indian MD for their heart surgery, I bet 97 or higher would prefer the US MD. The tiny remainder would probably show no preference.

Their is a brand power of a US medical education, which is especially strong for US patients.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by pessimizer on Monday July 29, 2013 @06:52AM (#6120257)

I think it's probably just racism. I bet you'd see similar outcomes if you let people choose between white doctors and Indian-American doctors, even if the white doctor was the foreign one.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by apalmer on Monday July 29, 2013 @01:58PM (#6122727)

Naw, not true, at least on the east coast indian doctors (with american MDs) are common and are not generally viewed as 'inferior' in any way to caucasian doctors.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by pessimizer on Monday July 29, 2013 @02:19PM (#6122856)

There are so many Indian doctors that it's almost become a stereotype of Indians. I'm just saying that given a choice, the white doctor gets chosen, rather than the US-educated one.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by rdouble on Monday July 29, 2013 @01:59PM (#6122734)

In rural america often times the only doctors are Indian or Pakistani.

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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by tripzilch on Monday July 29, 2013 @07:23AM (#6120333)

I agree but not sure if it's quite racism, more like prejudice. If it were a relatively poor or say (ex-) communist country with white doctors they'd be wary too.

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