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To: mishedlo who wrote (23600)	2/15/2005 11:18:25 AM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116555

I posted some time ago that many are going to India as well. A bypass surgery costs $2500. Throw in a trip for 2, stay, medicines, personalized care etc, it will still be less than $8000. These are not just any hospitals, and are state of the art with all medical equipment purchased from US, Europe or Japanese based multinational companies. Most of the Surgeons have spent a lot of time in American hospitals as senior doctors. I would throw a wild assed guess, if failure rate over here is 99.8%, it might be 99.5% over there. For some this is a risk worth taking.

To: mishedlo who wrote (23600)	2/15/2005 11:26:32 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Talking about cosmetic surgery, one of my cousin who works in the US got eye bags, so she checked out the cost to have them removed. The surgery in the US has to be done with general anesthesia, and it costs US$2000-$3000. While in Beijing, this is a small operation which needs only local anesthesia, and takes much shorter time, and only cost her 700 Yuan (less than US$100). And since the Chinese doctors have much more cases to practice so they are more skillful. She did it in China, and has been very satisfied with the result. Although some Chinese cosmetic surgeons are lousy (same here in the US). So one has to do some research.

To: mishedlo who wrote (23600)	2/16/2005 6:21:31 PM
From: microhoogle!	Respond to of 116555

Americans flock to India for treatment [ How timely to the discussion going on here. I am seriously considering of buying stock in Indian hospitals - assuming they are traded ] IANS Hyderabad, February 16, 2005\|21:51 IST A reversal of medical tourism now has Americans making a beeline for India, seeking latest and cheaper treatments. Until recently, it was the ther way round, with Indians rushing to the US for better cure facilities. However, with the state-of-art medical procedures, equipment and facilities now available in India, patients from developed countries like Canada and Britain are flocking to Indian hospitals. The Indian medical fraternity conquered the "final frontier" when Americans too started coming here for the latest medical procedures, which are either not available in their country or are much more expensive. Robert Walter Beeney was unable to walk due to a stiff hip when he landed in India on January 24. Twenty days later, he not only recovered after a rare hip replacement surgery at Apollo Hospital here but also visited the famous Taj Mahal in Agra after that. The 64-year-old real estate consultant from San Francisco underwent successful surface replacement surgery using the anatomic surface replacement (ASR) hip system on January 27, reportedly becoming the first US national to come to India for the treatment. Another patient from Florida will be landing in Chennai for a similar procedure at the Apollo Hospital there later this week. A team of doctors, led by orthopaedic surgeon Vijay Bose, carried out the procedure for Beeney. Jayaramchander Pingle, a member of the medical team, told a news conference Tuesday that while in the conventional hip replacement surgery, the total hip was replaced, in the new system, the patient's original head and neck of femur were preserved and only their surface is replaced with metal on metal articulation. With the use of very advanced metallurgy in this device, the wear and tear is reduced to a fraction in the artificial joint as opposed to the conventional total hip replacement. Another advantage of the latest procedure is that in the event of any problem that may occur in the long term, the conventional total hip replacement can be done at a later stage. Beeney, who came to know about the procedure in India through the Internet, said that since this was not yet cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration, he decided to come here. "This is despite the fact that the device that is fixed in the hip is made in the US," he said. He also had other options like going to Britain or Belgium for treatment. "But I preferred India as the treatment costs there are huge," he said. The treatment in India cost him $6,600 (Rs.300,000) while the same as a part of clinical trial in US would have cost $24,000. Even in Britain, where this procedure was first developed a few years ago, it would have cost £12,000. Sangita Reddy, executive director of Apollo Hospitals, hoped that doors of the $1.7 trillion US healthcare industry would now open for Indian hospitals. While the patients from Afro-Asian countries, the Middle East, Canada, Britain and other parts of the world had been coming to India, Beeney's case was significant as he chose India after a thorough research, she added. The Apollo group, one of Asia's largest private healthcare providers, gets seven percent of its turnover from international patients. The group's total turnover during 2003-04 was Rs.5 billion. The Apollo group in India treated 43,000 foreign patients during the last three and a half years. hindustantimes.com