Medical Tourism and Alternative Medicine
Medical tourism is a term originally coined by travel agencies to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. The early practice of medical tourism was to combine vacation travel with cosmetic procedures. Later patients began to travel abroad to obtain conventional therapies at reduced costs compared with their home countries. They may also travel to obtain treatments that are not available in their home country. The links associated with the "German Cancer Klinik" casebook below reflect the publicized cases of Farrah Fawcett and Bret Hudson who traveled to this same Klinik in Germany to obtain unconventional treatments for advanced anal cancer and throat (laryngeal) cancer, respectively.
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Medical Tourism is the unfortunate moniker that has attached itself to what is growing into quite a different trend than a “holiday combined with a medical procedure.” Because many North Americans can’t get access to procedures at home, or can’t afford them, their only alternative is to travel long distances for surgery, like HipResurfacing which was only recently approved in the U.S. To learn more about procedures, international hospitals and to read what patients have to say about their experience with medical travel, visit WorldMed Assist
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