Doctor Patel

[Plane]

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/2005_01.html


Last year some 150,000 foreigners visited India for treatment, with the number rising by 15% a year… Naresh Trehan, who earned $2m… a year as a heart surgeon in Manhattan… said that his hospital in Delhi completed 4,200 heart operations last year. “That is more than anyone else in the world. The death rate for coronary bypass patients… is well below the first-world averages… Nobody questions the capability of an Indian doctor, because there isn’t a big hospital in the United States or Britain where there isn’t an Indian doctor working…”

[Lanya]

I had an excellent hospitalist (that's a new term to me) the last time I was in the hospital.
She was from Sri Lanka. 
Medical tourism is getting to be a big thing.