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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1599113" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>I have experienced bad treatment (in a small, middle-income country I will not name) when I had a botched elbow operation. That required two follow-up ops, in two other countries, to fix. Fortunately my employer paid for it all.</p><p></p><p>However, and this is the scary bit, I have also had quite a few terrible experiences in highly developed industrialized countries. There is not necessarily a correlation between a country's level of development, and its medical system. Cuba for instance has, by all accounts, an excellent medical system under the circumstances.</p><p></p><p>My experience is that in numerous developing countries, many doctors were actually trained somewhere in the West and then came back to contribute their knowledge and expertise to their home country. The problem, usually, is the system they end up working in (and the lack of resources) rather than the doctors. So it can be harder to find optimal care, but by no means impossible.</p><p></p><p>If you are worried enough about it, fly home and get at least the initial treatment on the NHS. (Yeah, I know, that's easy for me to say!)</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1599113, member: 438800"] I have experienced bad treatment (in a small, middle-income country I will not name) when I had a botched elbow operation. That required two follow-up ops, in two other countries, to fix. Fortunately my employer paid for it all. However, and this is the scary bit, I have also had quite a few terrible experiences in highly developed industrialized countries. There is not necessarily a correlation between a country's level of development, and its medical system. Cuba for instance has, by all accounts, an excellent medical system under the circumstances. My experience is that in numerous developing countries, many doctors were actually trained somewhere in the West and then came back to contribute their knowledge and expertise to their home country. The problem, usually, is the system they end up working in (and the lack of resources) rather than the doctors. So it can be harder to find optimal care, but by no means impossible. If you are worried enough about it, fly home and get at least the initial treatment on the NHS. (Yeah, I know, that's easy for me to say!) Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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