Posted on March 30, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
I joined China Connection Global Healthcare as COO in January 2009. With that change came the need to catch others up on my latest move and part of the conversation inevitably involved questions about Destination HealthCare™.
Destination HealthCare™ is distinctly different from what the media often refer to as “medical tourism”. Last week, I even saw medical travel to South [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
Bozuk: A turkish word generally meaning “damaged beyond any reasonable hope of repair”.
A great friend and mentor lived for a time in Turkey while serving in the US Air Force and regularly tried to teach me some useful words and phrases in Turkish. Over the course of time, only one of those words has remained with me, [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
The memo said that the company was facing hard choices in tough economic times. It said it values its employees and their families and hoped we understood why it had to make some changes to the health insurance plan. This year it means individual deductions to pay for the plan, increasing the deductible (again for the [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
I’ll concede that China Connection’s blog might seem an odd place for a mini-rant about medical tourism. However, it isn’t the concept that has me vexed today. It’s the term.
According to Wikipedia, “medical tourism” was coined by travel agents and the media to describe the practice of crossing international borders to seek medical care. It [...]
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