Are the doctors and nurses you work with in medical tourism following best practices in wearing gloves? Proper and routine glove use enhances patient safety and treatment quality. Keep your eyes open.
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Glove Use Guidelines
Are Medical Complications The Fault Of Bad Medical Tourists?
The article usually starts with a headline like “The TRUE cost of medical tourism.”
It foreshadows a tale of horror, a story about a medical treatment abroad gone bad. It’s a portrait of a hapless medical tourist suffering a medical complication. Read more…
How to fake a medical tourism “most popular” list
Hold your nose, because information about medical tourism sometimes stinks.
But this is no surprise to most medical travel professionals.
From Forbes to Treatment Abroad and the Medical Tourism Association, it seems no one can resist listing the best, the most popular, the trendiest medical destinations. Oh, wait, there is no “trendiest” list of medical tourism “hotspots” … yet. Read more…
Heads of state as medical tourists – what are the hot spots of medical tourism?
We have become used to reading about government leaders heading abroad for major medical treatment. A president or prime minister is often a country’s Medical Tourist No. 1, heading off to top medical tourism centers in leading medical destinations.
Cost of medical treatment is seldom the main concern for these Read more…
Is a medical travel “facilitator” really necessary?
When you started thinking about having a treatment abroad, I’m sure you found plenty of hospitals, clinics, doctors and medical tourism agents that all were happy to take your money. Where do you begin?
Some people will plunge right in, to contact what seem to be the best hospitals for them. Often, they find it difficult to communicate with the hospital, and Read more…
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