Transplant Surgery abroad is not the same in every country

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------We see articles and posts describing the the negative from all those other countries, with hardlyany distinction between the individual countries. That's like calling all Transplant Surgery in Cal.sub standard because of a few mess ups and the Kaiser nonsense. Except for Pakistan I have been to the countries mentioned below. China (mainland) They harvest all the organs while alive on the O R table. They say they get consent before and compensate the family. The guy dies when they remove the heart. China (Taiwan ) Good Surgeons but you bring your own related donor. Must be proved as close relativeat their Embassy in the US, with real documents. Cambodia- Not done, they refer to Thailand. Thailand- Not doing foreigners nor living brain dead donor, since 2001 when police arrested 5 of the best Transplant Surgeons saying that by taking the kidney from a brain dead donor with a beating heart, donor was still alive according to the Thai police. India- passed laws against selling a kidney and they do enforce the law. Their Transplant Surgeons are top notch but only doing related live donor Transplant. New Dehli has some good Transplant hospitals and the sightseeing is good. The Taj Mahal is about 2-3 hours away. The streets are safe and the people are friendly. Singapore - One good transplant Surgeon. No cadaver list and only does related donors . Expensive too. Hong Kong- Only with Related donors but quality Surgeons. Expensive by Asian standards. Philippines- They were under US control and have medical schools modeled after those in the US. Their Transplant Surgeon train in the US or with American Transplant Surgeons. They have a National Cadaver waiting list set up in 1988 by the George Town Medical school. However now cadaver transplants are less than 5 % of the total transplants in the Philippines. The donors are young men in their twenty's for the mostpart. The hospital does not find the donors, since it would be a conflict since the have an Ethics committee tointerview the donor. The Transplant Surgeons are NOT hospital employees as they are in the US . Since the Transplant team needs to approve the donor medically , it is someone with the team who knows of the donorand not myself. The logic is that I can not buy anything in this country at a lower price than the Filipinos can. So, what I do is to find the ESRD patients who prefer a transplant. I also keeps the Surgeons from changing prices by playing off one from the next Surgeon. I throw around the names of their competitors to let them know i can do this. They are very experienced Surgeons as well as experienced at prying extra money from the foreigner. Since I give people a fixed price, I can't allow the Surgeon to demand what ever he likes, so I switch whenneeded. The donor gets free followup forever ,whenever. http://liver4you.org

About The Author Transplant Surgery abroad is not the same in every country says Dr. Mitch Michaelson, Medical Transplant Consultant.