Kill or Cure – Doctors and Nurses 2 of 2 – BBC Health Documentary, recorded 16.01.2010 Series taking a close-up look at some deadly diseases and the cutting-edge science that is being developed to combat them. There are about eight and a half million doctors in the world and about 18 m million nurses. Unsurprisingly there are many more in the rich world than anywhere else. Worse than that, developing countries that spend their limited resources training medical staff often see them leave for better paid jobs abroad: it’s a medical brain drain. Is there anything that can be done to regulate the market in doctors and nurses, and are there any other solutions on offer. To follow all “Kill or Cure” programmes or to follow other topics from RockhopperTV , see www.rockhopper.tv .

www.youtube.com SPC offers a variety of short-term study abroad programs. While abroad, students must be enrolled in at least one course that correlates with their program itinerary. FIVE REASONS TO STUDY ABROAD Many students describe their study abroad experience as the most meaningful part of their education, impacting their personal growth and enhancing their global perspective. Studying abroad helps you: * Understand and appreciate other cultures and how the culture of the United States is perceived by others. You will be immersed in a different culture, enriching your personal and professional future. * Gain a global education. By experiencing the environment of a new culture on a daily basis, you will gain a tangible sense of how other people live and work. * Learn a foreign language. New languages come alive when you immerse yourself in the environment. * Enhance your professional opportunities. Future employers recognize the value of the intercultural communication skills you will have gained by studying abroad, which are important in todays global economy. * Earn academic credit. Expand your horizons, meet interesting people, sample exotic foods and enjoy the sights while you earn college credit. About St.Petersburg College: In 1927, St. Petersburg College (then known as St. Petersburg Junior College) became Florida’s first private, non-profit, two-year school of higher learning located in downtown St. Petersburg. Full accreditation followed in 1931 and in 1948 …

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www.abroaderview.org Volunteer Abroad Argentina Buenos Aires Health Care Medical Nurse Dentist Programs

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Visit www.hsr.com.au for great career opportunities in Nursing, Midwifery and for Doctors, Specialists, Allied Health and other Me Visit www.hsr.com.au for great career opportunities in Nursing, Midwifery and for Doctors, Specialists, Allied Health and other Medical Jobs in Australia – New South Wales – Find out what HealthStaff Recruitment can do for you.

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In Mali, a Peace Corps Volunteer uses her background in nursing to educate mothers on proper nutrition for their children.

Learn more about Peace Corps Health Volunteers at http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatvol.health

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Open-Heart Surgery–90% off

1.A patient was in need of complicated heart surgery. His hospital said the cost would be $200,000 and wanted $100,000 up front. The patient’s son, a medical student, knew of the medical tourism industry and arranged for his father to have the operation overseas. The complicated surgery was a success. The cost: $6,700.

How is this possible? Excellent hospitals can be built overseas without the bureaucratic red tape found in the U.S., thereby saving construction time. Construction costs are lower, as are nursing, physician and administrative expenses.

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$400 per day, per patient (room and board covers mortgage, util and ma)
$25 per day, per patient, per nurse (8 patients per nurse)
$200 per hour, per surgeon (5 hours avg heart surgery, 4 surgeons)
cardiovascular surgeon (1)
Surgeon – Heart Transplant” in the United States is $405,725.
assisting surgeons (2)
about half of the surgeon $200,000
cardiovascular anesthesiologist (1)
$250,000
perfusion technologist, who runs the heart-lung machine (1)
$105,000
cardiovascular nurses (2)
$65,000
$100 per hour testing (4 hours per day)
Common Blood Tests Before Surgery
* CBC: The Complete Blood Count
* Chem 7: The Blood Chemistry Panel
* Liver Function Panel (Liver Function Tests, LFTs)
* PT/PTT/INR (Coagulation Study)
* Arterial Blood Gas (ABG)
Non-Invasive Testing Before Surgery
* Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI)
* Computed Tomography (CT Scan, Cat Scan) and CT Scan Video
* X-ray and X-ray Video
* Ultrasound
Testing Your Heart Before Surgery
* Electrocardiogram (EKG)
* Cardiac Stress Test
* Angiogram
* Echocardiogram

Lease (Mercedes-Benz $54,650 $769 per month)
heart-lung machine
pharmaceutical
10% of health care.

5 days, avg hospital stay for heart surgery
3-5 open heart cases per week per surgeon

COST PER PATIENT
$2,000 room and board
$500 administration
$500 medical equipment lease costs
$2,000 tests
$750 nurse care (2 nurses per patient, 24 hour care)
$4,000 5 hours, 4 surgeons
$1,050 pharmaceutical

TOTAL $10,800
TOTAL PLUS 20% FOR UNINSURED $12,960 (20% of all care)
TOTAL PLUS 6.2% FOR UNINSURED $11,470 (31% of care is hospital)
PERCENTAGE OF UNINSURED & UNABLE TO PAY

INDUSTRY TOTALS FOR HEART SURGARY ALONE
Total open-heart procedures 694,000
US Population 304,059,724 – Jul 2008
Percent of surgeries less then 1% (2/10 of 1% .002)

$2,000 room and board (1.3 billion per year)
$500 administration (347 million per year)
$1,050 pharmaceutical (728 million per year)
$500 medical equipment lease costs (347 million per year)
$2,000 tests (1.3 billion per year)
$750 nurse care (520 million in nurse care per year)
$4,000 5 hours (2.7 billion in surgeon care per year)

The avg cost for a family health insurance policy over $10,000 per year
The avg cost for single payer health insurance policy over $4,900 per year.

Avg monthly cost per single payer over $390
Avg monthly cost for avg heart surgery payed over 3 years at 10% interest $348

LESS THEN 1% of individuals will need heart surgery

SOURCES
1.http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0813/021.html
2.http://ezinearticles.com/?Heart-Surgery-Costs—Why-You-Should-Consider-India&id=102032
3.http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/open-heart-surgery.html
4.http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-09-14-family-health-policy_x.htm
5.http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4674
6.http://news.opb.org/article/3527-er-visits-uninsured-increasing-number-and-cost/
7.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/ervisits.htm
8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
9.http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgeon-salary.php
10.http://www.clarian.org/portal/Clarian/clarian-arnett?ContentID=/hospitals-locations/clarian-arnett/news-media/news-announcements/20090708_100th-open-heart-surgery.xml
11.http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Topics/Proced/index.cfm
12.https://www.perfusion.com/cgi-bin/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=37
13.http://www.apep.uci.edu/der/buildingintegration/2/BuildingTemplates/Hospital.aspx
14.http://surgery.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=surgery&cdn=health&tm=47&f=20&su=p284.9.336.ip_p736.8.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedServices/COE/surgicalServices/generalSurgery/patientEducation/tests
15.http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml

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Nowadays what we really tend to look for are services that would work with our specific needs as well as what is said to be substantial and one can afford. Since people now make sure that their money don’t go to waste, it is important that you know what your options are.

Let’s say you would like to avail further education abroad to pursue a different field or profession or might as well be an ordinary student who would like to pursue studies in a different country, do you know that you are entitled in a health security service which is called student health insurance? This student health insurance is a service that one should absolutely take advantage of when pursuing education abroad because it serves as a form of security when it comes to medical and health assistance while you are in a foreign country.

It is important that as a student traveling from one country to another, you should be able to secure a student health insurance to avail of the necessary health benefits in that particular country. No one could tell if one may encounter emergency problem during or after the travel. Having a student health insurance at hand would definitely make you feel more secure about what may occur in the future.

So let’s say that you are interested in getting a student health insurance for yourself, what you need to be ready with all the information that you need to give for availing he said service. Student health insurance providers would be needing certain information such as the location or to what country are you going to, when would you be planning to leave and to come back, and other personal identification inquiries.

Actually finding a student health insurance firm that offers inexpensive policies is not that difficult, all you need to do is to do a research on the different insurance companies that may give you a reduction price on the medical services and medicinal remedies that you tend to purchase for health purposes. For a safer way to check which insurance firms are legitimate, you may as well confirm with your local state what insurance providers would the recommend best.

So before you go studying abroad to pursue a career or a dream, make sure that you are equipped with everything that you need together with a health insurance that would secure you with your medical needs. You definitely will be able to look for an inexpensive one via the internet.

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Chapter 07 — Overseas Nurses Experience at Dalcross Interviews with Overseas trained Nurses – Visit www.dalcross.com for further information on Australia’s leading private specialist surgical hospitals.

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Shot on location in India, this short film provides insight from the perspective of visiting students and local partners into one of Child Family Health International’s 17 international sites.

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Chapter 08 – Our Experience with Overseas Nurses – Interview with Director of Nursing – Visit www.dalcross.com for further information on Australia’s leading private specialist surgical hospitals.

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In Nairobi, Kenya, a very small, very basic house costs 3,500 shillings a month (£25) – almost three-quarters of a nurses salary and beyond the means of nurses with families to feed. But many complain not about the poor standard of housing, but about the fact that around a quarter of qualified Kenyan nurses have no permanent nursing jobs in a country with a health system in crisis.

Those that have found work are often overworked and staff are leaving in droves, tempted by better conditions abroad, and they are not being replaced. There is a large reservoir of unemployed nurses throughout most African countries but many governments claims that are forced to introduce recruitment freezes due to the conditions of the IMF/World Bank aid packages designed to force African countries to slim their bloated civil services.

Many health professionals have scrimped to find the money to qualify but then struggle to find work once qualifying. Now, like thousands of others, they are saving to leave for the UK and USA. The African government often promises that they will increase spending on healthcare but many never do.

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain as disgruntled doctors and nurses scatter all over the world in search of better-paid and secure jobs. According to health ministry statistics in Zimbabwe, fewer than one in four posts for doctors is filled. Four out of five of the district hospitals that serve rural areas have no doctors. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled?

Not only are African governments, the IMF and World Bank making it difficult for them to find jobs but recently new rules designed to safeguard jobs for British trainee nurses have been introduced which could mean that thousands of foreign nurses already employed in the UK are forced out of work.

Recent studies in the UK say that as many as 80 per cent of nursing graduates are unable to find work in the UK, the Government has removed nursing from its list of professions that bypass immigration rules in August 2006.

This means that overseas nurses will be given a job only if no suitable applicants come forward from Britain or Europe. But the change also applies to existing nurses from overseas once they reach the end of their contracts.

Overseas nurses have become the backbone of the health services in recent years, with 45 per cent of new nurses registered in Britain coming from abroad.

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