Overseas, Under the Knife
By Arnold Milstein, Mark D. Smith and Jerome P. Kassire
NYTimes, June 9, 2009
ONE consequence of the high cost of medical care in the United States has been the rise of medical tourism. Every year, thousands of Americans undergo surgery in other countries because the allure of good care at half the price is too good to pass up. ...There is reason to think the quality of care at some foreign hospitals may be comparable to quality in the United States. More than 200 offshore hospitals have been accredited by the Joint Commission International, an arm of the organization that accredits American hospitals. Many employ English-speaking surgeons who trained at Western medical schools and teaching hospitals. So should offshore surgery be welcomed as a modest way to make American health care more affordable? We can’t know until we can directly compare the outcomes with those of American surgery. ... Read the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/opinion/10milstein.html?em
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