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Medical procedures easily done abroad
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At this time the number of people traveling away from their homes for medical services is about half a million in a year. Some travel abroad for more difficult surgeries that they cannot easily afford at home, but others – the opportunistic medical tourists – merely seize the opportunity of some minor procedure while they are traveling anyway.
Here are some medical procedures that can easily be done abroad. If you put so much effort in planning a vacation, why not add some extra effort into planning to resolve some health care issue at the same time? …
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The future of medical tourism industry
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In today’s developing world it is highly difficult to make accurate predictions about the future of one or another industry – medical tourism is not any different. And yet, there are certain signs and indicators that can give us some idea about what we can expect from this segment in the next decade.
Technological development, medical/ hospital costs and immigration reform are three strong and important indicators of what the future of medical tourism will bring. This will not be a very detailed and exhaustive description of the future but it will, hopefully give an idea of what will happen in the industry in the years coming. …
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