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| 10 Things Your Primary-Care Physician Won't Tell You - AOL.COM,
"They should put me on the endangered-species list."
A good primary-care doctor -- someone to coordinate your health care, help choose your specialists and be the first to diagnose just about any problem -- is the key to good medical treatment. But they're getting harder to come by. According to a 2007 study, it took new patients in Massachusetts an average 26 days to land an appointment with one.
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| Medical Tourism - The Impact - BBC.COM,
Developing market: A huge market is rapidly developing in the United States, Canada and Europe of people who are going abroad to seek urgent medical attention, cosmetic surgery and rehabilitation in salubrious climes.
The India alternative:The state minister for tourism Kodiveri Balakrishnan said: "As a state, Kerala is leading in the area of medical tourism… We are planning to announce a Medical Tourism Policy during the inaugural session" of the show.
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| Outsourcing Health With Overseas Remedies - CBSNEWS.COM,
NEW DELHI, India, - She's a rodeo barrel-racing champion who runs a 180-acre ranch in Oklahoma when she's not bouncing across back roads selling farms. Dodie Gilmore is a spry 60-year-old who loves the outdoors, but when she could no longer straddle her faithful horse, River, she knew it was time for a new hip.But how could she afford it? As an independent contractor for a small Coldwell Banker real estate franchise in Durant, Okla., she knew her privately....
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| Singapore Tourism Board - NEWMEDICALHORIZONS.COM,
Q & A with Dr. Jason CH Yap, Director, Healthcare Services, Singapore Tourism Board. Dr. Yap is a public health physician with nearly two decades in healthcare services and currently part of the SingaporeMedicine multi-agency initiative to promote and streamline services offered by Singapore's healthcare providers to international medical travelers.
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| Outsourcing Your Health - FORBES.COM,
When 56-year-old Ward Styner found out he needed a new hip last summer, he did what any logical, uninsured American would do. In pain while selling used cars in Yakima, Wash., he got on the Internet and searched the phrase "free hip replacement."
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| Low-cost foreign care begins to take off - MLIVE.COM,
There's a quiet revolution slowly building momentum in the health-care industry that could potentially lower the cost of employer-sponsored medical plans over the next decade. A new phenomenon called medical tourism confirms that globalization is finally affecting the health-care industry.
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| Medical tourism: Need surgery, will travel - WWW.CBC.CA,
What's called medical tourism – patients going to a different country for either urgent or elective medical procedures – is fast becoming a worldwide, multibillion-dollar industry.
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Beauty from Afar: Medical Tourist's Guide to Affordable and Quality Cosmetic Care Outside the U.S.
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By Jeff Schult Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Price: $5.99 Buy this book Beauty from Afar is a guide that offers consumers the pros and cons of traveling abroad for cosmetic or other elective surgeries or dentistry. Readers get the facts on the locations, the doctors, and the facilities, as well as the...
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The Complete Medical Tourist: Your Guide to Inexpensive and Safe Cosmetic, Medical and Dental Surgery Overseas
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By David Hancock Publisher: John Blake Publishing Price: $14.99 Buy this book Synopsis Medical tourism is one of the fastest-growing businesses on earth. With the rising price of treatment in the UK and long waiting lists, there's never been a better time to combine a trip abroad with a treatment. Plus many other...
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Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
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By Milica Zarkovic Bookman (Author), Karla R. Bookman Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Price: $29.95 Buy this book Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. This...
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Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism
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by Josef D. Woodman Publisher: Healthy Travel Media Price: $15.61 Buy this book Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, aimed at the 84 million uninsured and under-insured Americans seeking treatment options abroad for increasingly expensive procedures in the...
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State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India
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By Maggi Ann Grace Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S Price: $16.47 Buy this book In 2004, at the age of fifty-three, self-employed contractor Howard Stabb learns that a leaking mitral valve in his heart needs to be repaired. Left untreated, his doctors tell Stabb, his condition may kill him at any moment....
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