manqiangrexue
Brigadier
It's good but not perfect but neither is American healthcare. I had 1 tooth filling they probably underdid so it's a bit sensitive. But I had to leave so I didn't have time to ask the same dentist to fix it. It's not messing with me so I have absolutely no problem waiting another few months and paying another $40 to get it fixed when I go pick up my other kids (by the way, my wife is tallying this up to about $100K for 4 kids, all costs including flight and hotel included, something that would be well well over half a million to do in the US.)
American dentists who wanted $2K from me would say that this is evidence of poor work and you getting what you paid for. But of about 6 things I did there, this was the only slight imperfection. I've seen American dentists screw up dental implants missing the center of the jawbone before. One of my acquaintances in America is suing the hospital after his mother died from a routine shoulder surgery 2 weeks ago.
The procedure I had done went swimmingly. The Kazakh doctor says he does this surgery on average 4-6 times a day, 6 days a week. In the US, an American doctor likely does this 2-3 times a week. So I know whom the experience advantage goes to. (I will say, though, the facilities suck. The hospical bed is hand-crank only and the room has no AC in the summer and no wifi. Hardly work $39K though LOL) Plus, my ex-girlfriend who works for NYU Langone as a physician told me that when they get freshly-graduated doctors from countries that use the medical college system (rather than America's college then med school system) like China and Korea, they are absolutely stunned and out-gunned by these guys whom they say have what appears to be decades of experience over their American counterparts. And that's because American physicians may see 5 patients a day while a Chinese doctor sees 70 patients before lunch.
So basically, I'm quite happy and I think I got a equal or better care in Kazakhstan than I would have in the US for pennies on the dollar. I highly encourage anyone to give Kazakh healthcare a go. I went as an add-on to having to go for surrogacy but even without, if I get injured in the US right now, I'm booking a flight to Almaty to get it fixed as long as there's no immediate danger to my life.
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