Posted on September 9, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
The first two blogs in this series have generated lots of discussion. Since Destination HealthCare™, or medical tourism as some call it, remains relatively new to most people, it’s natural for there to be important questions begging to be answered. A friend recently asked the big picture question, “If destination healthcare is that good, why [...]
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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 May 2, 2009 by chinaglobalhealth
A recent Google search for “medical tourism” returned over 18 million results. Some were informative, some were advertisements for facilitators, countries or hospitals, some were overviews of medical tourism, and yet others were news stories about companies or individuals who were conducting pilot tests for destination healthcare projects. Unfortunately, too many of the hits consisted of outdated [...]
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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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