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The practice of travelling to get medical care
Medical tourism is becoming well known
because of its benefits like lower cost and can
enjoy a holiday in an exotic place

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Benefits
- Much cheaper to go outside of your country to get your treatment done
- You can get better treatments outside of your country
- attracting patients to countries such as India and Thailand could increase regional
economic inequalities
- communication in your native tongue
- access to experimental treatment if home country won't do the procedure
- sometimes get access to the best doctors
Drawbacks
- contracting an infection post-operatively while in the hospital, traveling during the
recuperative period, and an inadequate blood supply being available on-site at the
hospital to meet the patients' needs
- Also if you undergo procedures that are illegal in your own country or are
experimental could make you vulnerable to unknown health risks, that could be the
reason that these procedures are not don in your home country
- communication can lead to misunderstandings about care
- medication may not meet standards we are accustomed to
- you may not be getting doctors with the correct coalification's

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-improves global economy
-helps increase our life span
-it will help strengthen international bonds
-if someone needs an x-ray in the night they can send the
xray to someone in another time zone to see/diagnose
-can go for cosmetic procedures
-helps people save money by doing procedures outside of
the country-helps make a healthier society
- can help us get cheaper or a better quality of health care
- reduces wait time of medical procedures
- estimates suggest medical tourism expected to grow
around world to an estimated 40 billion
- provincial investment in medical tourism has increased
recently

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Opportunities to find procedures that will
lower wait times and improve your access to
the procedures
Opportunities of additional offers to those who
are will to travel to Canada
Opportunities for high quality and low cost
offshore treatment that could save you months
of waiting
Medical tourism providers support follow up
treatments

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"Medical Tourism - Getting Medical Care in Another
Country." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. N.p., n.d.
Web. 20 Oct. 2013.
"What Is Known about the Patient's Experience of Medical
Tourism? A Scoping Review." BMC Health Services Research.
N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2013.
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