US Top Hospitals See Influx of Chinese Patients (CCTV America-Mark Niu)
Stanford University Hospital Vice President for International Medical Services Barbara Ralston said, that Chinese patients have increased 127% in the last year. Out of 1000 calls from Chinese patients, 700 of them will eventually come for treatment. Dr.Qing Xiang, a M.D. from Zhejiang University in China, now work as a professor of Pain Medicine in Stanford University and referred a lot of Chinese patients to Stanford University Hospital. In University of California San Francisco Medical Center, Chinese patients have increased nearly 25% each year for the past five years. Cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological treatments are the top reasons that Chinese patients are coming to the American hospitals. But more patients are coming because they are interested in treating diseases impacted by environment. They are looking for assistance and managing disease environmental related disease, such as asthma, lung disease, and immunological diseases. Dr. Cohen said, “Chinese patients are good for hospitals not only for the hospital bottom line, but for medicine as a whole. The hospitals have a lot of research programs, precision medicine programs, which doctors try and evaluate how patients respond to therapy based on their genetic make-up and other characteristics. Having a large pool of patients from more diverse population is critically important to the hospital.”
