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Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery. From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Tue Aug 14 15:20:24 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: emilio porro: "More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery.why not offshore?" Previous message: Cesar Molina: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery." In reply to: Cesar Molina: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery." Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery." Absolutely nothing ... as long as prospective patients exercise due diligence. http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/queens/2007/07/17/2007-07-17_foreign_surgery_a_health_risk.html "Trust, but verify." Ronald Wilson Reagan Art At Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Cesar Molina wrote: > >what`s wrong callegue? Remember that you are living in a globalized world >in which the medical attention is only a "merchandise". If the >complications out of USA are worst than inner, do you have statistics to >support your statement?? Or your country have to review your prices? > >2007/8/14, Dean Huffman . <dean@thehuffpeople.net>: >> >> . >> >> More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery. >> >> M"any Americans are still heading overseas for bargains on elective >> cosmetic >> procedures and other surgical care they could not afford otherwise." Some >> "are >> also seeking experimental therapy unavailable in the U.S., such as >> last-ditch >> stem-cell-infusion therapy for myocardial ischemia. They may also be >> trying to >> jump to the head of the line for an organ transplant." Estimates place the >> number of these medical tourists at 150,000 each year, but some experts >> argue >> that such figures are highly inflated. In any case, many of these tourists >> are >> influenced by the cost of procedures abroad. For instance, a patient who >> needed >> surgery to repair a leaking mitral valve was told the entire procedure >> would >> cost over $200,000, but he traveled to India where his costs totaled >> $10,000, >> including airfare. More and more patients are traveling to countries like >> Mexico, Thailand Argentina, Brazil and others for various procedures. >> While >> some receive care equivalent to U.S. standards, many return home with >> infections, surgical complications, and require immediate hospitalization, >> sometimes with lengthy stays. >> -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: emilio porro: "More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery.why not offshore?" Previous message: Cesar Molina: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery." In reply to: Cesar Molina: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery." Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: More Americans are traveling abroad for surgery."

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