What is the attitude of doctors in the US towards patients seeking treatment abroad? Specific situations may be differences in approach to surgery, the need to follow up and manage patients after they have had surgery abroad.
Hopefully U.S. doctors will begin seeing the growing medical tourism industry as an opportunity to return U.S. medicine to medical professionals here, by engaging with the industry rather than seeing it as competition.
Stephanie Sulger RN, MS, CIPC
Director International Medical Services
Medical Tours International
It is not the physicians attitudes that count here. The healthcare model is primarily directed by business, not the docs. Isn't it curious that there has not been a greater move toward outsourcing for monetary reasons by the healthcare insurers. They direct each step in prescribing tiers of meds, for example, yet have not yet aggressiviely moved toward the obvious savings available in outsourcing. Imagine how much the state of Massechusetts could save if they rigorously outsourced, or Oregon, to name two that have become intimately involved in directing care. Perhaps the timing of the election cycle has the business folks moving slowly right now. Anyway, I anticipate the outsourcing oughtta come on like a Tsunami after a few little trial efforts.
I am in agreement with Stephanie. It is a sad statement for a nation as great as ours that good medical care for the average middle income joe is unavailable. I think it absolutley gross that families can be destroyed financially by illness. I have received non-emergency medical care in Portugal and France while traveling and was astounded at the excellent care and outstanding service to the patient (myself) for a fraction of the cost that I would have incurred in the US. In fact in France they were apologetic about the fee charged as I was not on the national health system!!! It was a drop in the bucket and yet they were concerned about having to charge me. Surely our US Doctors need to wake up and start practicing the 'art' of medicine and not the 'business' of medicine.
From what I understand, foreign doctors don't think they are offering medical tourists low prices. They just think prices in the US are a ripoff! I agree!
U.S. Doctors attitude towards Medical Tourism
Hopefully U.S. doctors will begin seeing the growing medical tourism industry as an opportunity to return U.S. medicine to medical professionals here, by engaging with the industry rather than seeing it as competition.
Stephanie Sulger RN, MS, CIPC
Director International Medical Services
Medical Tours International
www.medicaltoursinternational.com
www.stemcellsabroad.com
Attitude of US doctors
It is not the physicians attitudes that count here. The healthcare model is primarily directed by business, not the docs. Isn't it curious that there has not been a greater move toward outsourcing for monetary reasons by the healthcare insurers. They direct each step in prescribing tiers of meds, for example, yet have not yet aggressiviely moved toward the obvious savings available in outsourcing. Imagine how much the state of Massechusetts could save if they rigorously outsourced, or Oregon, to name two that have become intimately involved in directing care. Perhaps the timing of the election cycle has the business folks moving slowly right now. Anyway, I anticipate the outsourcing oughtta come on like a Tsunami after a few little trial efforts.
US Medicine
I am in agreement with Stephanie. It is a sad statement for a nation as great as ours that good medical care for the average middle income joe is unavailable. I think it absolutley gross that families can be destroyed financially by illness. I have received non-emergency medical care in Portugal and France while traveling and was astounded at the excellent care and outstanding service to the patient (myself) for a fraction of the cost that I would have incurred in the US. In fact in France they were apologetic about the fee charged as I was not on the national health system!!! It was a drop in the bucket and yet they were concerned about having to charge me. Surely our US Doctors need to wake up and start practicing the 'art' of medicine and not the 'business' of medicine.
Is it cheap overseas or just a ripoff in the US?
From what I understand, foreign doctors don't think they are offering medical tourists low prices. They just think prices in the US are a ripoff! I agree!
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Excellent!!! !