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1. Head to Brazil for a Nip and Tuck
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... give patients cause for concern.  No matter what the risks involve, however, medical tourism will continue to flourish in the coming years as patients around the globe search for affordable, safe, and ...
2. Get a Winning Smile with Dental Veneers
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... which enables them to mimic the light handling characteristics of dental enamel, they also have their disadvantages, which makes them not suitable for all patients. One such disadvantage is the fact ...
3. Uncover Your Inner Self in Thailand
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... for a metoidoplasty, whereas a male to female surgery or MtF costs $6,500.  Medical tourism is providing potential patients with affordable options to change their sex.  As one of the top regional destinations ...
4. The Art of Rhinoplasty: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... with patients opting for one of the five most common cosmetic surgery procedures; breast augmentation, liposuction, blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, and abdominoplasty.  According to the American Society for ...
5. Despite the Recession, Medical Tourism Is on the Increase for India
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Medical Tourism on the Increase in India  As the recession takes hold, it would be natural to think that medical tourism would see a decline in the number of foreign patients.  This however, does ...
... safety for affordable health care.  Affordable cosmetic procedures like dental crowns or facelifts may have been the hardest hit by the declining tourism.  Many patients are unwilling to accept the risk ...
7. Medical Tourism vs. Universal Health Care
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... be a limit to just how drastic.  Let’s be clear about this, there’s a stark contrast between medical tourism and scavenging a black market for health care.  Patients should take care not to act in desperation, ...
8. Patients Shouldn’t Compromise Safety for Affordable Health Care
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... in the US can seem priceless to the millions of uninsured or underinsured who are feeling the economic pinch.  Fortunately, many companies that provide dental tourism packages help patients plan safety ...
9. Will Medical Tourism Help or Hurt US Health Care Crisis?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... industry leader with a history of drawing patients from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada for the shocking affordability of critical procedures like hip replacement or spinal fusion and cosmetic procedures ...
10. Will Universal Health Care Level Medical Playing Fields?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... common appeal to those who have, and those who have not.  Over the past couple of decades, medical tourism has proven to help save patients enough money that even the haves may be more likely to consider ...
11. Has Your Employer Added Medical Vacations to Your Medical Coverage?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... medical tourism to places like Thailand, India, or Singapore for low priced medical procedures ranging from braces to ear surgery.  An increasing wave of US patients—over 750,000 in 2007 alone—have travelled ...
12. Thailand Can Make a Man Out of You
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... health issues affecting other countries.  For example, patients may reconsider medical tourism to a country with political or religious unrest.  Likewise, certain countries are reported to have excessively ...
13. Could Affordable Facial Implants Be for You?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... drop your guard and increase the chances of something going awry.  Patients can, however, find solace in the vast array of information available online.  Medical tourism resources like Healism.com offer ...
14. Can Medical Tourism Packages Thrive With Universal Health Care?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... factors in cardiac risk is smoking.  So strong is the link that cardiologist Dr. S.K. Chang says, “In patients who have had a heart attack, quitting smoking can halve the risk of sudden death and recurrence ...
15. Affordable Health Care During Tumultuous Times
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Trouble in Thailand May Disrupt Draw for Affordable Health Care Even if patients are unafraid of the political unrest in Bangkok, Thailand, their hopes of traveling abroad in search of affordable health ...
16. Is Dental Tourism Safe?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Low Prices vs. Safe Health Care Traveling abroad for low priced health care raises the question:  Is dental tourism—from dental fillings to root canals—safe for US patients?  Unfortunately, there’s ...
17. US Insurer Announces Cover for Health Vacations in India
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... vacations from across the world.  It's not just emergency life-saving procedures that lure patients – non-emergency and elective surgeries also play their part in contributing to the country's medical ...
18. The Search for the Legendary Health Vacation Insurance Provider
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... and medical tourism agents who assist with the process of locating an appropriate doctor and clinic, potential patients are ever more willing to cross the ocean in search of the perfect face or body.  ...
19. Is Medical Tourism Dangerous?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... eloquently put it, “Overseas medical facilities are not required to follow the high standards… It is quite conceivable that patients…will end up back home in United States hospitals with complications, ...
20. Get a Brazilian Butt with a Health Vacation Package
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... S.C., has it all down to a science depending on the ethnicity of the patient: “Asian patients look for small, shapely buttocks, while Caucasian patients are after either ‘voluptuous Playboy bottoms’ or ...
21. Look No Further for Low Priced Chemical Peels
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... they also greatly reduce the risk of complications.  Some chemical peels, like VI Peel, are so advanced that patients may feel little more discomfort than sunburn irritations as it resurfaces the skin.  ...
22. Avoiding the Dangers of Medical Tourism
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... travelers can get from virtually any points “A” to “B” without regard to geographic barriers like oceans.  Patients in the US can research almost any hospital in the world; the ones that aren’t yet online ...
23. Low Priced Colonoscopy: Bargain or Hoax?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Bargain Savvy Patients Still Want Safe Health Care Sure you can get a low priced colonoscopy in Thailand, but is that health vacation going to ensure your safety?  Will you travel thousands of miles ...
24. Can India Help You Fake Your Age Like the Rich and Famous?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... overall service.  Terrorist threats are equally troubling.  In the wake of the recent attacks on a Mumbai, hospitals in India have also had to deal with the justified concern of foreign patients scheduled ...
25. Custom Made Vaginas in Thailand?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... reach of plastic surgery and other health care options both economically and geographically.  With health vacations, patients can now travel farther and pay less to have their bodies customized. Medical ...
26. Show off Those Thighs in Beautiful Brazil
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Medical Tourism "Nip-Tucks" Inflated Plastic Surgery Prices Medical tourism has become an amazing way to reduce the cost of thigh lift surgery for US patients.  Thigh lift surgery (or thighplasty) is ...
27. Reconciling Medical Tourism with Local Healthcare
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... pressure on these facilities to treat more patients who may not be able to pay the costs of their treatment.  Apollo Hospitals, which has been rapped on the knuckles by the Indian government more than ...
28. History of Poland
(Destinations/Poland)
... of state since the end of the Second World War. Today, Poland has the fastest growing economy in Central Europe.  It is an emerging medical tourism center with thousands of patients from the rest of ...
29. History of Havana
(Destinations/Cuba)
... to the US also makes the country, and Havana in particular, attractive to medical tourism patients who need health care of "socialist" prices and "capitalist" quality.  ...
30. Are Health Vacations Becoming Too Mainstream?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... patients who travel on health vacations is around 750,000 patients annually, and this is expected to touch 6 million patients annually by 2011, the report says. There are several indicators pointing to ...
31. Medical Tourism Advice for the Newbie Traveler
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Not-so-Pleasant Health Vacation Experiences Medical tourism offers patients a way out of the high costs of health care in the US.  From face lifts to hip replacement surgery, patients are finding that ...
32. What Boob Jobs, Teeth, and Singapore Have in Common
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... amazing growth, particularly in recent years.  A combination of factors—excessive health care costs, sharp declines in disposable income, and the overwhelming desire to “bring sexy back”—have led US patients ...
33. Medical Tourism Competes with Strings and Doorknobs
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... porcelain fillings, known as inlays, can be ordered to match the color of the tooth.  Although on average, the porcelain fillings are more expensive than their amalgam counterparts, medical tourism patients ...
34. Medical Vacations Replace Your Apple-a-Day
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... industry.  Low Cost of Dental Care Builds Bridges around the World There’s obviously a void in the US health care industry that medical tourism is filling, pun intended.  US patients are having difficulty ...
35. Malaysia Gets the Kinks Out of Your Neck
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... it.  Other countries, like Canada and Great Britain have taken a universal approach to health care.  The ensuing wait times have traded affordability for accessibility; patients have trouble getting the ...
36. India’s Baby Boom and the Rise of Medical Tourism
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... American clinics are limited to a maximum of 2 embryos.  This carries potential risks to the mother, though, so patients are best advised to evaluate their options before deciding on the number of embryos ...
37. Plastic Surgery for the Alpha Male: the Advantages of Medical Travel
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, which acknowledged that the industry has seen a 60% increase in male patients seeking elective surgery in 2005.  The AAFPRS also found that 22% of male patients cite ...
38. What's So Great about India Anyway?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... consultant surgeon at Apollo Indraprastha Hospitals, New Delhi, one of the country's premier healthcare facilities, and as he says, the country can look forward to more patients arriving here on health ...
39. Does a Recession Mean More Benefits for Medical Tourism Industry?
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... to Deloitte, close to 450,000 foreign patients visited India for medical and surgical treatment in 2007.  This number is only bound to increase as the US begins extreme cost tightening initiatives to deal ...
40. Lose Major Weight at Minor Price in India
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... catching on to the benefits of medical tourism, like lower payout amounts and preventive procedures prolonging patients’ healthiness.  Like India, other medical tourism destinations countries—Argentina, ...
41. Medical Vacations May not Be US Health Care Answer, but They’re Helping
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... consumers.  With the advent of globalization, businesses, too, were lured abroad.  These days, growing numbers of US patients are leaving the borders for countries like India, Thailand, Hungary, and Argentina, ...
42. Find Your Roots in Malaysia
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... Patients Look to Insurers for Help In times of health care and economic crises combined, Americans count themselves fortunate if they aren’t among the 47 million people who are uninsured and 30 million ...
43. Dental Tourism Destinations Whitening the Way
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
Turkey Becoming Synonymous with Saving Money Shortages in affordable health care are driving dental patients overseas, where bedside manners, optimal technology solutions, and rock-bottom prices await.  ...
44. In Singapore, What You Don’t See is What You Get
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... association doesn’t necessarily apply.  Cheap labor and lower living costs are the primary factors that give patients affordable invisalign braces, dentures, fillings, and pleasant root canals.  Who ...
45. Toothless No More, Courtesy of Dental Tourism
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... More Affordable For Americans who can’t afford insurance or don’t have enough coverage, dental tourism to countries like India, Brazil, Argentina, or Hungary may fill the gaps in toothless smiles.  Patients ...
46. Medical Tourism Thailand: Strong enough for a Man, But Made for a Woman
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... occur occasionally, and one has to take certain precautions to avoid falling prey to this.  While opting for medical tourism in countries like Thailand, patients should look at many hospitals , check the ...
47. Thailand Will Make a Man of You, Yet
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... and prosthetic genitalia grafted from the patients own skin make the new breed of men far more believable.  Dr. Marci Bowers, formerly Dr. Mark Bowers, a male to female surgery patient who now performs ...
48. Singapore Gets in Your Face
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
The Low Cost of Medical Tourism Draws Facial Implant Patients Overseas Given today’s economy, a pending health care crisis, and inflated plastic surgery prices, patients’ pockets need to be much deeper ...
49. How Health Vacations Can Ease the Pain in Your Back
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
... is turning in favor of medical tourism.  So long as patients stay well-informed of the potential risks and benefits, it remains a potentially winning proposition for the average individual.    ...
50. Taking the Cost of Coronary Angioplasty Surgery to Heart
(Blogs/The Stanley Rubenti Medical Tourism Blog)
What Medical Tourism Can Do for You The American Heart Journal recently published a study on the cost of coronary angioplasty compared with coronary bypass surgery.  The results indicate that patients ...