Healthcare, whether at home or abroad, is usually considered from the patient's point of view. What is the disease? What is the best treatment? How much will it cost? What if something goes wrong?

But what about your Doctor? Are you a risk to them? Dr. Pauline Chen, writing recently in the New York Times, offers an interesting commentary on the risks faced by healthcare workers from patients with serious diseases: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/health/21chen.html

As Dr. Chen notes, doctors are ordinary people willing to take risks because of their beliefs.