Why Is It That Americans Don't Consider Getting The Lap Band Procedure Overseas ?

[futuremodel 1]

@bromo,I don't make statements without assuming I'm going to met with resistance. I feel if you cannot handle others statements then you shouldn't post. I'm not saying the care there is of less standards but I having lived abroad in numerous places and have witness the things that occurs in the health care field and it is my opinion that a lot of Americans have a negative outlook on (international healthcare) anything that isn't American. Its as if most believe life does not exist outside of the U.S. of A.

[54Shirley 105]

@54Shirley If you are suggesting that Dr abroad are not up to the U.S.A. standards I would have to refute this. If you haven't noticed many Americans doctors are internationally taught.

On my Surgeons end, they all go to Switzerland throughout the year, and are sharpened up with new Techniques in Schooling. This is a REQUIREMENT...

Even my band is installed the European way. Yes there is more than one way you know...

He chooses the European way because less chance of slippage. That is his way, and that is on every patient of his. That is in the U.S.A.... I am walking proof of his work, and that's good enough for me.

So why travel when you can get it done here.

[bromo 17]

future, I don't think anyone has the right to say who should or should not be posting here. Many people come to the boards for many different things. Personality types are spread all across the board here. I post at several boards and the tone of each one is different, but I would never take it upon myself to tell anyone that they shouldn't be posting if they didn't meet my standards.

I personally do not think care is better or worse in Europe or elsewhere. It is just that I live in the US, my insurance covers me here, and I have access to some of the best doctors anywhere. I live in the city which houses UAB which ranks in the top five hosptials in the US in many instances. We have a very diverse population due to people from all over the world coming here to study and research medicine. My reasons for not considering surgery in another country have nothing to do with level of care, but with finances and logistics.