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Originally posted by KRL
LOL, if you go to a hospital and get an X-RAY diagnosed during the night shift odds are its going to be done by an offshore Radiologist 8,000 miles away.
The big countries supplying US hospitals radiology services by telecom and the Net are India, Lebanon, Israel, and Australia.
In India, Radiologists make $35K a year compared to $350K a year for a US Radiologist.
Do they tell you this? Nope. Do you get a passed along price savings on your hospital bill? Nope.
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Well the US doctor still has to do a final sign off, but by sending to India their work is cut out. Example. For a Brest cancer scan, radiologist have to look at the image for about 10 min, but they can send that to India and a Indian radiologist can make a mark on the x-ray where tumor is and send it back to the US radiologist who can sign off on it, max time 1-2 min for the guy in US. Radiologist get paid about 50 dollars for each reading, so now instead of doing 10 readings, they end up doing 50 - 60 and make 2-3K an hour...not a bad income.
My wife is a doctor and she is Indian. In Indian family one kid has to be a doctor always and since I was a kid my parents pushed me and my brother to become a doctor, since we both did not full fill their wishes we ended up marrying doctors. So this explains why 35% of the doctors in US are Indians
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