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Based on my medical care in the USA I can assure you Asian doctors are,at the very least, at the same level as US doctors. It sounds like an insult to my ears.
by quaquaqua1 7y ago
Based on my medical care in the USA I can assure you Asian doctors are,at the very least, at the same level as US doctors. It sounds like an insult to my ears.
- DeepYogurt 7y agoAsia is a big place. Which area(s) are you referring to?
- scumbert 7y agoStrange he didn't see the irony of "insult" when referring to Asia as a monolith
- csomar 7y agoMany people forget that Saudi Arabia (fifth biggest by land) is in Asia too.
- yahwrong 7y agoI think you guys are missing the joke. The users experience is with the U.S. health system. Because the stereotype and the parent comments have the implication that doctors from Asia are seen as inferior; the joke being that the U.S. sets a fucking low standard for quality of care.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoThis is indeed exactly what I was trying to say, thank you :)))
- bane 7y ago> Because the stereotype and the parent comments have the implication that doctors from Asia are seen as inferior; That's not at all what I said and is exactly the opposite.
- yahwrong 7y agoYeah because I'm explaining someone else's joke to you. Like it or not some of the comments here are perpetuating that stereotype. It's also a disservice and naive for one to claim that the there isn't that stereotype.
- CPLX 7y agoSurely there are some differences between Myanmar and Tokyo right? There’s a lot of countries in Asia.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoIronically some of the SEA countries probably have better medical services than Tokyo. You guys are criticizing me for calling Asia a monolith but I can assure you the difference between Tokyo and Myanmar is smaller than NYU and the Midwest
- keiferski 7y agoSome of the best medical centers in the country are in the Midwest...
- asdff 7y agoVery true. But for every Cleveland Clinic there are a hundred other midwestern cities that lack a similar tier institution, but you might have three similar institutions to CC in NYC or on the west coast to choose from. Having to drive over an hour to see your specialist while you are senile is not ideal, but is a reality for a lot of people in the midwest by virtue of the sprawl and low density of services.
- keiferski 7y agoHave you commuted or driven around NYC or LA? Unless you live in the same neighborhood, your commute to the hospital is already going to be 30-60 minutes. Not to mention that of the top hundred hospitals in the country, only a handful are in NYC or LA. One could make an argument that living in rural areas is worse than urban ones when it comes to access to top medical care, but that has nothing to do with the NYC/LA vs. the rest of the country.
- CPLX 7y agoMidwest like the Mayo Clinic?
- refurb 7y agoThe doctors might be at the same level, but do they have the same access to resources?
- bane 7y agoThe resources can be better. I can't find it right now (and don't have the time to look for it), but there's some interesting studies that show at least in South Korea, there's something like 3-4x the number of medical imaging devices per capita than in the U.S. Costs are fractions of U.S. costs. For an extraordinary number of medical situations, one could fly to Korea, get treated, stay in hotels or nice recovery centers (medical hotels), and fly back and still spend less money than in the U.S. with very competitive medical outcomes.
- refurb 7y agoThat’s entirely believable for developed Asian nations like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan. For developing countries, you can have very capable doctors, but limited access to technologies.
- pixelperfect 7y agoI can tell you from experience that an average doctor in a backwater county of Arkansas is better than an average doctor in the capital city of Laos.
- dmitriz 7y agoI can also tell from my own experience that an average doctor in Thailand's backwater is better than in the capital of Ireland.
- underpand 7y agoCan you expand?
- bane 7y agoBased on where my wife and I are thinking of retiring (Korea, Japan), I believe I said that they were within the intersection of high quality and reasonable cost. You've understood what I've said in exactly the opposite way.