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Assembly line eye surgeries in India - http://96.0.107.6/?q=node/view/1829 http://96.0.107.6/?q=node/view/1829 I've read elsewhere that many medical students intern at Aravind Eye hospital simply because they can see and treat more cases of a rare disease in one week than they could in years in the developing world. India has the potential to become the Medical tourist capital of the world. And as with everything else here, there are hospitals which treat the ultra-wealthy at international standard with the latest technology, and absolute hell-holes catering to the poorest destitutes. They may even be neighbours. The entire system is very screwed up by the pathetically low number of doctors (per capita) we produce every year on the one hand, the vanishingly small number of openings for MDs, and the ridiculously small pay for a doctor without an MD degree. A friend of mine has been trying without success for 4 years to get an MD position. Medical tourists are good and bad. Good because of the forex inflow. Bad because they take away meager domestic capacity.