Posted on June 21, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
The healthcare reform debate continues, but is it properly defined. Concerns about medical quality, accessibility and affordability can be met through the alternatives provided by destination healthcare.
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
In recent months, both the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons have issued new position statements regarding destination healthcare (or its less serious cousin, medical tourism). What’s interesting about this occurrence is not that it happened, but rather the recognition by both bodies of the important role destination healthcare can play when [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
At this hour, Air France Flight 447 from Rio to Paris is missing and presumed lost in the Atlantic. On board were 228 souls, each of whom leave behind families, friends, neighbors and colleagues. Not all of us will know someone on the flight, or perhaps even someone who knows someone on the flight. We [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
In part I of this series on Destination HealthCare™, we outlined the need to separate the wheat from the chaff.
For Destination HealthCare™, the chaff is the infobabble of outdated information, an association with leisure travel (Ed. note: Once there’s been a scalpel involved, I’m no longer a tourist.), and the confusing array of commentary by [...]
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