India to be largest market for knee, hip replacements

“The market for DePuy's RP-F (rotating platform high flexion) knees has been steadily increasing since its launch nearly two years ago”

NEW DELHI: India is poised to become the largest market for orthopaedic implants over the next five years, growing at a compounded growth rate of over 30% annually. via The Times of India

[Heather]

Quite honestly, I cannot imagine going to some 3rd world country like India for surgery.

There is a lot more to think of than just hygiene and medical standards. What are the legal implications when something does go wrong? That's when you really want to be in the US or Western Europe.

A friend of mine needed a hip replacement and her insurance plan wouldn’t pay for it. So she went to Germany for surgery. It was only marginally more expensive than India, but they actually kept her in hospital for some 3 weeks to recover and have rehab every day.

That's something one will neither get in the US nor anywhere else.

[Cassandra]

Hi Heather,
I am needing hip surgery. I am a recruitment consultant for doctors internationally.. I can assure you that there are several very well qualified doctors in India. I am even considern going there myself to have surgery. I have no doubt from my experience with Doctors from India that you wll get excellent treatment.

[Ed - Philadelphia PA]

Everyone should know that Strker was required to post payments to Doctors from 2007-2009. Go to their website and check out your doctor. The monies being exchanged here are absolutely sickening. My doctors and their office has been paid millions of dollars last year alone. How can they have our best intersts at heart with so much money being involved here for individual doctors