“Medical travel” is not the same as “medical tourism.”
“Medical travel” is a phrase long preferred over “medical tourism” by health care leaders, hospital managers and medical professionals.
Most have reluctantly accepted the term “medical tourism” but many continue to dislike it because they feel it trivializes the process of getting and giving treatment and care. It is not tourism, is the common message. Read more…
The term “medical tourism” has come to embrace all facets of consumers seeking treatment, improvement or change through medical or wellness practices – provided they cross an international border to do so.
Medical tourism, medical travel, health Read more…
How much value does a medical tourist really get when going abroad for medical treatment?
What is the true cost of a hip transplant for a medical traveler? What is the going rate for a medical tourist’s breast augmentation? Should one travel to India or to Mexico to get the best savings from a coronary angioplasty? Read more…
As retailers are turning away from using the phrase “customer service”, hospitals and clinics especially in medical tourism are embracing this phrase wholeheartedly.
Medical providers define customer service according to their own needs. Mostly, as evidenced in hospitals I’ve worked with, “customer service” Read more…
Selling one’s organs is nothing but controversial in most circles of health care, including medical tourism.
Yet arguments for and against the sale of organs for transplantation are made by distinguished medical leaders. As recently as 2009, the U.S. Congress considered – but failed to pass – a law that would allow payment to certain organ donors. Read more…
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