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

Are all doctors able to study specialists? Sure. Do they? Likely not – there’s just so much in the way, like the doctoring they already do and are more likely to benefit from polishing their skills on, for any doctor to be able to do it all. That said, a doctor could study a procedure and learn how to do it – that’s how new doctors learn how to do it in the first place, after all!

But much like anyone can learn to wire electricity through a house if they study, I’d still rather go with the guy who has had experience wiring 1000 other houses and knows from experience what can and can’t go wrong with the procedure and how to deal with issues that crop up along the way than some guy who has watched a lot of youtube videos.