As doctor who has trained numerous third world doctors and worked with third world doctors in their home countries, I think the quality of their skills varies more than that of a US doctor.PriestTheRunner wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:31 amThis.
I actually like the medical system in above third-world countries. And even in major cities in third-world (or near third world) countries can be pretty good. Part of the problem is actually American elitism, that we somehow think someone in Nicaragua or Bamako, Nali couldn't possibly have gotten a good education- but the fact is that books and the internet are in every medical school. Oftentimes the skill and knowledge of the Doctor is a result of his hard work (or sometime in the US his lack of it, and subsequent poor skill).
Being able to walk into a medical system overseas and get treatment within an hour for half for less of what it costs here is dang nice- but you pay cash on your way out. When you get government (mostly) out of the system and let economics take over, prices are par for the norm in the local economy.
For example, Managua (I've been to this one, though not as a patient): https://www.sermesa.com.ni/
The insides of the rooms look just like any other hospital. The only thing that surprised me was the windows into operating rooms (with disposable curtains). I'll have to find the photos I took. Edit: The socialist state hospital there sucks, though.
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