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The Concept of Medical Tourism


For example, Dr. Barry Steinberg, a craniofacial surgeon for University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians and other team of surgeons, travel to some foreign countries such as Vietnam, to care for pediatric patients with facial deformities and when Dr. Steinberg and other surgeons travels to those foreign countries to perform surgery for those patients depending on their parents military affiliations, specific insurances or nothing at all due to an organization called Future Faces, that help children with cost of surgery due to facial deformities. According to Marlowe and Sullivan (2007), "a very limited number of employers now promote the option of surgical treatment overseas for certain major procedures as part of their standard medical plan, healthcare cost savings for both the plan sponsor and the employee are the main objective in offshore healthcare." (1) .
             Medical tourism or healthcare tourism has pros and cons when it comes to patients utilizing healthcare in other countries. Healthcare organizations do differ from others countries when it comes to medical care. Samir and Karim (2011), stated, "patients seeking offshore treatment are exposed to several risks. Quality of healthcare and patient safety is the most serious issue with medical tourism. Quality of healthcare and standard by which it is measured varies to a great extent around the world. The modest body of scholars on patients traveling to China, India, and Pakistan for organ transplants suggests that financial gain out of transplantation surgeries substantially increases morbidity and mortality rates". (10) .
             The advantages of medical tourism is lower labor and living costs, the availability of inexpensive pharmaceuticals, and the low cost or absence of malpractice insurance allow many developing countries to offer some procedures at 10 per cent of the cost in the United States, inclusive of travel and accommodation (Hopkins, et al.


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