If anyone wants to operate in my chest cavity, please knock my butt out!
Great Post
India innovates and we Obaminate! India encourages private investment and we denounce profits in health care. India has functioning markets for health care and we resort to price controls and rationing. The roles have certainly reversed. India used to be a backwater of Marxist control. Now we headed to Marxist control.
Something to keep in mind is that a lot of the ever-less-intrusive medical technology demanded in America is to reduce the potential for cosmetic disfiguration. In India, looks matter less than living, so simpler, cheaper techniques can be employed.
Amazing!
I can barely sit still for a hair cut much less surgery.
I am not sure that I would like being awake under major surgery, but the Indians have a cultural advantage. They seem to respect tricks like lying on a bed of nails, or walking on hot coals.
But seriously, I admire their common-sense innovation. Everything indicates that India is advancing very rapidly. One might ask, why is India advancing, and the Muslim countries of Pakistan and Bangledesh are essentially going nowhere?
I favor the theory that family structure plays a big part in the cultural forms which determine competitive success. The best is the nuclear family, or alternatively the tight Confucian family model, which has well defined roles of responsibility. Less effective is the “extended family” model found in the more backward parts of India, because many of the extended family are out-of-work lay-abouts, who diminish the rewards of the harder-working family members. Third is the Islamic model, which constricts the creativity of women, and distorts their natural role as mothers, is generally anti-intellectual, and glorifies violence.
The single-parent family is the weakest form of all. The end-result example is Haiti, poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where about 5% of the children are in two-parent families. Marriage is virtually ineffective as a social force in Haiti.
yeah and the wages of nurses and doctors is pathetic in India. they get educated here, scam the student loans, and then go back there.
Instead of crowing about this you ought to be searching for the horror stories from Idian hospitals that make the Brits look sane ( and there are plenty).
It is damned near impossible to get ANYONE to respond to you once your srugeries are done. If something goes wrong, tough you lose. Moreover they do not have some of the really critical pieces of new technology that provide better results——hence the Nova Scotian PM going to the US and NOT India for his stents