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Yes there are hospitals in India that cater to a specific aliment. For instance, eye hospitals, cancer centres, hospitals that cater to pregnancy, childbirth and neonatology etc.

> Like you're saying, the more a heart surgeon specializes, the better they are at it and the cheaper they can do it. Better Outcomes for less money.

Not necessarily.

1. A heart surgeon is going to be doing heart surgery at more or less the same frequency regardless of whether the hospital they're at handles only heart patients or not. Wouldn't they?

2. I doubt if anybody here considers them cheap. Yes it's probably cheaper than in the US, but still it's rather expensive. But then again, since life is priceless, ...

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mikkergp3y ago

At a 2000 bed facility though, you could specialize in specific types of heart surgeries. At a general hospital you're probably more likely to take on a wider variety of heart procedures. It's not just experience, but experience in specific procedures that can dictate outcomes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-quality-surger...

Maybe cheap is the wrong term, but less expensive? I mean $800 may be expensive but certainly it's better than more?

2143OP3y ago

I see your point about experience with a specific procedure. Makes sense.

About the cheapness aspect, what I've seen in India is that if a hospital specializes in a specific type of treatment, there's a good chance it is going to be expensive. Unless it's run by the government or something. But a lot of super-speciality hospitals near me are private hospitals.

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