I like China. In 2016 BC (Before Corona), I was in Shanghai to learn the technique of bypass surgery of the brain. Healthcare in China is centralised in the form of large hospitals; they don't have nursing homes and private hospitals as we do here. Each hospital has a few thousand beds and centres of excellence for each specialty. Depending on your diagnosis, you will be directed to the most competent team in the field. These centres are nearly always fully occupied, despite the fact that most of life's problems can be dealt with using acupuncture and acupressure; cubbyholes offering them lining nearly every street in the country.

In India, most neurosurgeons operate on the brain and spine. In Europe, those who operate on the brain seldom venture into problems of the spine. In the academic institutes of America, surgeons who remove brain tumours generally refrain from doing vascular brain surgery, and the set of people doing functional brain surgery is entirely different.