Why do athletes when they get injured travel around the world to go to see a specific doctor, aren’t all doctors able to study specialists to learn the best techniques?

Question

Always hear of athletes based in UK or US for example travelling to Spain or other countries to get surgery.

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Answer 1

No, not at all, just like any other profession there are those who are better than others. And there are those who have more practice.

If I’m a baseball pitcher and I tear a ligament in my elbow, I want to guy who’s already done 500 similar surgeries and has seen most of those athletes resume their careers than some other doctor who has watched the other surgeon on YouTube and ready a few papers on his technique, but never actually operated on that ligament to repair a multi-million dollar pitching arm.