The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--the implications of medical outsourcing.
The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--the implications of medical outsourcing.
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美国医学的“错位”——医疗外包的影响
DOI：
10.1056/nejmp058258
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2006
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R. Wachter
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作者：
R. Wachter
当宾夕法尼亚州阿尔图纳的一名病人，印度班加罗尔的一位医生需要在半夜进行紧急脑部扫描，医生被要求解释扫描结果。由于美国放射科医生短缺，以及对诊断数十种疾病的更复杂扫描的需求激增，阿尔托纳医院和其他数十家美国医院的医生发现，即使在医学领域，离岸外包也很有效。. . .大部分医生都是美国人尽管至少有一个实验使用的是未经美国培训的放射科医生。- 美联社，2004年12月6日直到最近，需要.
When a patient in Altoona, Pa., needs an emergency brain scan in the middle of the night, a doctor in Bangalore, India, is asked to interpret the results. Spurred by a shortage of U.S. radiologists and an exploding demand for more sophisticated scans to diagnose scores of ailments, doctors at Altoona Hospital and dozens of other American hospitals are finding that offshore outsourcing works even in medicine. . . . Most of the doctors are U.S.-trained and licensed — although there is at least one experiment using radiologists without U.S. training. —Associated Press, December 6, 2004 Until recently, the need . . .