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Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel (Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-) | 
 enlarge | Author: Josef Woodman
Publisher: Healthy Travel Media
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 46678
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 410
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 097910792X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780979107924
ASIN: 097910792X
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, written by the world's leading spokesperson on international health travel. Impartial, extensively researched and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully culled from hundreds of resources in the US and abroad.
Patients Beyond Borders lists the 30 top medical travel destinations, where patients can choose from hundreds of hospitals and save 30-80% on medical procedures, ranging from a comprehensive health check-up to heart work, orthopedics, dental and cosmetic surgery, in vitro fertilization and more.
The revised and expanded Second Edition carries 40 new hospitals and 8 new destinations, including Israel, Jordan, Korea, New Zealand, Panama, the Philippines, Taiwan and Turkey. In addition to never-before-published information on continued care post-procedure, how to handle malpractice abroad, finding the best health travel agent. A handy Treatment Index allows readers to easily match their medical condition to the best clinics.
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Every medical traveler should read this first August 1, 2008
Medical travel (or medical tourism) is all over the news these days as people look for the best health care, not only in terms of cost but also in safety, quality, and simple human kindness. Even though we all know the American health care system is struggling and we've all heard horror stories about dirty hospitals with overworked nurses accidentally giving patients the wrong drugs, many of us are still not sure that medical travel is a good idea. It's new to a lot of people and the old stereotype of back-alley clinics with doctors who don't speak a word of English still hangs on.
More and more people are finding out that medical travel really does open up a world of excellent medical and dental care, if you are smart and do your homework. Woodman's book is very timely and he does a lot of the work for you by pulling together information that would take hours of research on the Web to find. He goes beyond the superficial "people are getting tummy-tucks overseas" stories and he covers all aspects of medical travel. He is clear about both the potential advantages and potential pitfalls of traveling for health care.
As health travel planners, we at Affordable World Care can be more effective in working with patients who understand what to expect and know how to work with their doctor or dentist to get the best, safest result from their travel. We have copies of this guide available whenever we exhibit at health or beauty expos, and we recommend it to potential patients who call us to plan their travel.
The new edition has added a considerable number of country-specific resources and information. For those who have already decided on a destination, the country guides such as the Singapore edition are even more detailed. We look forward to a Latin American edition that would highlight the great offerings in Mexico and Central and South America. Because medical travel as an industry is still new, some areas are still not fully developed. As the industry grows, we would like to see Woodman include more material on insurance coverage for medical travel, government licensing and inspection of facilities (both by the U.S. and overseas governments), and efforts to measure the quality of outcomes experienced by medical travelers.
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