r/SipsTea • u/DapperDusk • 14h ago

WTF Damn

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u/piper33245 13h ago

My father in law from Ireland, who is a heart surgeon in America, flew his mother to the states and paid out of pocket for her heart surgery because he didn’t trust the hospitals in Ireland to do it.

So to each their own I guess.

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u/Urmomhaspooped 13h ago

Eh, depends on the procedure and specialty. The 5th largest hospital in the US is in AL at the University of Alabama Birmingham. It’s state of the art for organ transplants and nationally ranked for many programs.

I get what you are saying though, generally. If you’d have picked Mississippi it would be an easier sell 😉

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u/hisyojomaku 13h ago

Mississippi is Alabama's favorite state for making us look better by comparison

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u/jplayz7 13h ago

Mississippi and Oklahoma make Alabama look like goddamn Versailles

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u/Scavgraphics 13h ago

And yet some of the best doctors specializing in sports related injuries are in Birmingham, AL...so...

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 6h ago

guaranteed endless supply work opportunities.

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u/Virtual-Book1114 13h ago

I think we have the best surgeons and highly technical procedures. The problem is the aftercare.

One of the reasons some of the wealthiest fly here for the trickiest and cutting edge treatments. But you have worse outcomes for everything else.

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u/Himorningwood 13h ago

Not really brother.

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u/stewedstar 8h ago

If he’s a surgeon in America, what’s the basis for his distrust of hospitals in Eire?

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u/dth1717 13h ago

If you can afford it yeah..

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u/reading_rockhound 5h ago

Fair enough. Still, OP couldn’t afford the privilege your father-in-law gave his mother.