Good points on follow up, but the doctors also outsource their dictation to India...to save money...good article to read in full...cost is what would drive anyone, but our own preference would be to stay right here....if the surgery is affordable...BD
"Everything is made in China now. It doesn't have to be that way for health care," said Dr. Robert Klapper, chief of orthopedic surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. "You take major risks when you go elsewhere."
Klapper admitted he typically ends up seeing only those who run into trouble but said that such complications happen and that puts local surgeons at a disadvantage because they lack information about the procedure.
Fresno surgeon Kelvin Higa, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, said that in addition to wanting to save money, patients often travel overseas out of frustration because health insurance carriers make it so difficult for them to get surgery for obesity.
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