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Her experience is the same as mine. I've had most of my medical care over the last few years done in India. This includes LASIK (34k per eye), a selective nerv
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
Her experience is the same as mine.
I've had most of my medical care over the last few years done in India. This includes LASIK (34k per eye), a selective nerve root blocker injection (8k) and a micro lumbar discectomy (85k). I expect to have a second discectomy done in the next month (being really tall sucks), provided my condition doesn't worsen and I'm able to fly.
Overall, my experience with India's medical system has been fantastic. I've found clean hospitals (not all of them!), total price was all completely transparent (+/- 10% of quoted price), and the doctors have generally been as good as in the US.
Overall, for anyone needing significant medical work done, I strongly recommend medical tourism.
Also, while you are there, have a custom suit made (particularly if you are really tall, and ordinary clothes don't fit). But be warned - I spent more on my suit than on the root blocker injection.
[edit: numbers in INR. Quick reference: 1 lac INR = 1600 USD. In spite of a few years worth of inflation, I don't expect to spend more than 2k USD on back surgery.]
[edit 2: 1 lac = 100,000.]
- dpeck 12y agoAre these in USD or INR?
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- Scoundreller 12y agoI'm guessing INR. 43k INR = US$558 8k INR = US$131 85k INR = $1397 (per xe.net)
- voxic11 12y agoI love how they work out to be about what it would cost in both countries using their own currency.
- McDiesel 12y agoI think you got your numbers backwards... 1600 IRN ~ 1 USD, right? Your way, your lasik costs about $54M.. So you can get full Lasik for ~$50USD?
- amitparikh 12y agoA "lac" (or "lakh") is a unit of 100,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh (See also, "crore" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore)
- vbit 12y ago1 USD ~ 60 INR https://www.google.com/search?q=34000+inr+in+usd https://www.google.com/search?q=34000+inr+in+usd =~ $600 US
- vijaykiran 12y ago1 lac(or lakh) = 100,000 So 34k INR = 34,000 INR ~ 550 USD
- redraga 12y agoLooks like there's a good opportunity for medical tourism in India. Maybe it's a startup idea?
- yummyfajitas 12y agoThere are companies which do this. One hospital I visited has a dedicated office for medical tourists (mostly Arabs). I have no idea how useful the office is, I just went in like an Indian. For lawsuit-related reasons, I'd avoid doing such a startup myself. The US is lawsuit happy - a purely India-based operation would have a competitive advantage over me.
- redraga 12y ago> For lawsuit-related reasons, I'd avoid doing such a startup myself. Of course, I think this is an idea that Indian based startups can pursue.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoIf anyone in Pune is interested, I'll be there in October and will be happy to offer free advice (worth every rupee) on handling the US side.
- kamikazi 12y agoI'd love to pick your brains about this. Have sent you an email. Thanks.