Hence the word “suspect”. Let’s call it an educated guess. I didn’t say anything about “inferior”. I was talking about morality, standards, and regulation. Indian medicine is quite developed, though I think the research side is negligible in comparison to the US, for example. Malaysian medicine may be developed too.
And standards and regulation are more important and more potent than morality. If you are a US doctor and misbehave, you are much more likely to have bad things happen to you. This is relatively unlikely in India. Hence from a patient’s POV, you are safer dealing with a US doctor, though they will be much more expensive.
In any case, Joan’s interest isn’t directly in mainstream medicine. As I understand it, this pain therapy is more alternative, closer to massage therapy, probably.
India does lots of medical tourism and no doubt has many satisfied customers. It’s also the case that parts (possibly large parts) of the Indian medical community are basically professional criminals, often including quite well known people (I am not exaggerating). Surgeons seem to be particularly problematic. I’ve personally encountered some very scary stuff, and heard scary stories from other people. I regularly take other people to see doctors, so I’ve met quite a lot of them in recent years.
Homeopathy is also legal and much practiced and quite popular in India. Saifee Hospital, near me, is a large and modern hospital, and it has homeopaths on staff. To summarize, homeopathy is quite mainstream in India, unlike the United States and probably Western Europe. And as everyone knows, homeopathy is medical fraud. Apparently the Prince of Wales is a fan, though. I think finding out the status of homeopathy in Malaysia would tell one something about Malaysian medicine.
Basically, I’m just counselling caution. And I agree my ramblings are probably not very useful, so I’ll stop now…