tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35723485496977837992011-11-27T16:25:00.179-08:00Medical Tourism is growing in popularity as people look for alternative ways to find affordable healthcare. What are the risks of Medical Tourism? What are the consequences of Medical Tourism?Joseph Magoffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561799182230856019noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572348549697783799.post-73536588014493006982008-07-28T22:53:00.001-07:002008-07-28T22:53:26.106-07:00Medical tourism<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />Jump to: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#column-one">navigation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#searchInput">search</a><br />Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by <a title="Travel agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_agency">travel agencies</a> and the <a title="Mass media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media">mass media</a> to describe the rapidly-growing practice of <a title="Travel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel">traveling</a> across international borders to obtain <a title="Health care" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care">health care</a>.<br />Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized <a title="Surgery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery">surgeries</a> such as <a title="Joint replacement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_replacement">joint replacement</a> (<a title="Knee replacement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_replacement">knee</a>/<a title="Hip replacement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_replacement">hip</a>), <a title="Cardiac surgery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_surgery">cardiac surgery</a>, <a title="Dental surgery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_surgery">dental surgery</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmetic surgery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetic_surgery">cosmetic surgeries</a>. As a practical matter, providers and customers commonly use informal channels of communication-connection-contract, and in such cases this tends to mean less regulatory or legal oversight to assure quality and less formal recourse to reimbursement or redress, if needed.<br />Leisure aspects typically associated with travel and tourism may be included on such medical travel trips. Prospective medical tourism patients need to keep in mind the extra cost of travel and accommodations when deciding on treatment locations.<br />A specialized subset of medical tourism is reproductive tourism, which is the practice of traveling abroad to undergo <a class="mw-redirect" title="In-vitro fertilization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-vitro_fertilization">in-vitro fertilization</a> and other <a title="Assisted reproductive technology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_reproductive_technology">assisted reproductive technology</a> treatments.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572348549697783799-7353658801449300698?l=4medicaltourism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joseph Magoffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561799182230856019noreply@blogger.com0