Posts Tagged ‘medical travel’

Traveling Abroad for Cosmetic Surgery

Traveling abroad for cosmetic surgery has become an increasingly popular activity amongst people in the United States and Europe. Why travel abroad? For one, the cost of having cosmetic surgery done abroad is much less than the cost of having a cosmetic surgery procedure at home, and the quality of the procedure is as good and sometimes better in foreign hospitals that cater specifically to medical tourists. To give an example of the savings, a high-end breast augmentation procedure in, say, Brazil, costs around $3000, while the same procedure in the U.S. would cost around $10,000 or more.

Aside from the savings, though, another allure of medical travel is that foreign hospitals that cater to medical tourists offer a high level patient care that is not really seen anywhere in the United States or Europe. Having your cosmetic surgery overseas also gives you privacy and ensures that the whole experience is discrete. You can tell your acquaintances back home that you are simply on vacation, while in you enjoy a pleasant recovery period in an exotic location. Read more…

Traveling to Thailand for Medical Tourism

Medical treatments in the United States can be notoriously expensive. Medical Tourism is the name coined by travel agencies and popular culture to refer to the practice of traveling outside of one’s own country for the purposes of receiving cheaper, and sometimes better, medical treatments. Thailand is one of the most popular destinations for medical tourism in Asia, and the industry is a rapidly growing segment of the eastern nation’s tourism and health-care sectors. A single Bangkok hospital received over 150,000 foreigners seeking special medical treatments in 2005. Medical tourism was purported to have earned Thailand an estimated 36.4 billion baht in 2006.

Medical tourists traveling to Thailand can find a wide range of treatments available. Everything from cosmetic surgery, dental work and orthopedic treatments to organ transplants and cardiac surgeries. But people also go there for spa and physical therapy treatments. The costs of such medical treatments in Thailand are drastically lower than in the United States or Europe. Read more…