Oh great, a newer and better superbug

[elchivito]

An E-Coli and a Pneumonia that are resistant to virtually everything and who can pass their resistant DNA to other bacteria species. Brought to you by plastic surgery patients who go to India to get their faces rearranged on the cheap.
http://yhoo.it/aIdJSO

[pj67coll]

Idiots. Any Yank, Brit, or European who goes to India to get their tits tweaked on the cheap deserves whatever they get.

- Peter.

[Kuan]

But we don't deserve to get it from them.

[alabbasi]

Medical tourism is now big business. A friend of mine went to Brazil to have gastric bypass surgery and lost what appears to be 2/3 of her weight. She then went back a couple of years later to get everything nipped and tucked away so that she doesn't look like a human sail.

It cost her many thousands of dollars to do this in Brazil which she paid out of pocket, but it would have cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the same surgery in the US. She always had a pretty face but now she's very attractive.

There are obvious risks, but I have to admit that this surgery has transformed her health and her social life. She's a much happier person now then she was when i first met her. I can't really fault her for doing it, even though I tried to talk her out of it when she initially told me what she was planning.

I don't think that this is India's fault, if doctors weren't dishing out antibiotics for every little ailment, then there would be no super bug.

[pj67coll]

Originally Posted by alabbasi

Medical tourism is now big business. A friend of mine went to Brazil to have gastric bypass surgery and lost what appears to be 2/3 of her weight. She then went back a couple of years later to get everything nipped and tucked away so that she doesn't look like a human sail.

It cost her many thousands of dollars to do this in Brazil which she paid out of pocket, but it would have cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the same surgery in the US. She always had a pretty face but now she's very attractive.

There are obvious risks, but I have to admit that this surgery has transformed her health and her social life. She's a much happier person now then she was when i first met her. I can't really fault her for doing it, even though I tried to talk her out of it when she initially told me what she was planning.

I don't think that this is India's fault, if doctors weren't dishing out antibiotics for every little ailment, then there would be no super bug.

Not entirely doctors fault. Idiot patients who dont follow thru a course of antibiotics to conclusion as as much to blame. And while it might be possible to treat some illnesses without prescribed antibiotics I'm not sure that's entirely feasible. for many,.

I don't see why such surgery as your friend had would have cost such a ridiculous mount. My boss had it done a couple of years ago and it' didn't cost anything like that.

- Peter.

[alabbasi]

Originally Posted by pj67coll

I don't see why such surgery as your friend had would have cost such a ridiculous mount. My boss had it done a couple of years ago and it' didn't cost anything like that.

- Peter.

I don't have the details, she did mention that her surgery was a little more advanced the lobbing off a chunk of stomach and was more a rework of the intestines and that this surgery is easier to live with in the future. She can eat normally now.

I agree that it's not entirely a doctor issue here as patients seem to expect to walk out with a prescription in hand and insurance companies expect to see some treatment in the bill before they pay out. That's a much bigger topic which has been covered many times over on this forum. We should not just lay the blame on India as there is obviously more to it then that.