Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel (Patients Beyond Borders Medical Travel Guides) - Softcover

Josef Woodman

3.6

15 ratings by Goodreads

9780979107924: Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel (Patients Beyond Borders Medical Travel Guides)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097910792X ISBN 13: 9780979107924

Publisher: Healthy Travel Media, 2008

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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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Review:

A must-read for those considering medical tourism.”
ABC News

If you have no medical insurance, and need medical or dental treatment, you might consider obtaining a copy of a book that has clarified the way to a new form of travel: medical or dental tourism.”
Arthur Frommer, author of The Travel Show with Arthur Frommer and radio personality on WOR 710 Talk Radio

”Patients Beyond Borders is a landmark series of consumer guides to international medical travel that has helped thousands of patients plan successful health journeys abroad.”
US News World Report

This tome couldn’t be more timely.”
Travel Leisure Magazine

Patients Beyond Borders tells how to plan and budget for medical care and how to find the best doctors and hospitals.
AARP Bulletin

a practical guide to planning a medical trip ”
Washington Post

About the Author:

Author Josef Woodman has spent more than three years touring 100 medical facilities in 14 countries, researching contemporary medical tourism. As co-founder of MyDailyHealth and Ventana Communications, Woodman's pioneering background in health, wellness, and Web technology has allowed him to compile a wealth of information about global health travel, telemedicine, and new developments in consumer and institutional medical care. Woodman has lectured at the UCLA School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School and has conducted seminars and workshops in a dozen countries. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Healthcare Summit and as Program Co-Chairman of the Global Healthcare Congress. Woodman has emerged as an outspoken advocate of global consumer healthcare and medical travel.

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