Who Are the Doctors in Medical Tourism?
00:00:00.000 | You get an interesting mix of doctors, I've talked to a fair number of them,
00:00:03.200 | and a lot of them are refugees from the U.S. healthcare system
00:00:06.560 | because they're tired of being harassed by the insurance companies
00:00:09.840 | to keep things moving along, to meet quotas because the reimbursement rates are so low.
00:00:14.480 | So, at Bologna, for example, it's the top international medical travel hospital in the world.
00:00:20.080 | Some 45% of their patients are from other countries,
00:00:23.920 | but they have 300 American board-certified doctors and surgeons in that hospital.
00:00:28.560 | That's an anomaly. So, if you're checking on credentials,
00:00:31.920 | you know, again, you're doing your own research, you're referring yourself.
00:00:35.120 | You have to trust that, you know, the University of Birmingham in the U.K.
00:00:39.200 | puts out good doctors. On the other hand, in the United States,
00:00:42.560 | one out of every seven surgeons is of Indian descent.
00:00:45.920 | They were trained in India, and they're now in the United States.
00:00:49.680 | And people don't really question that because they have a higher level of comfort
00:00:53.120 | when they're in the United States.
00:00:54.720 | If they knew this exact same doctor was going to treat them in Bangalore or Chennai,
00:00:59.200 | they might run 100 miles from that.