I have had some situations in which an existing clinic patient of ours goes to Mexico, Thailand or India to have (usually elective) surgery done and they develop a complication when they are back. A whole lot of surgeons don't want to even touch those patients because they are afraid that they will get tagged with the problems and could be held liable.
We often end up having to send those patients to the medical school where they will take all comers. I note in the original article that the patient with the superbug ended up at the local medical school, and her home town of Jonesboro in Arkansas is a regional medical referral center, so I am pretty sure they have infectious disease specialists there. I wonder if her hometown providers also did not want to deal with the problems and just turfed her over to the medical school.
