Wal-Mart gives major boost to domestic medical tourism movement – amednews.com.
The video is less than four minutes long and gives you a sense of the current state of medical tourism.
Fascinating stuff.
Affordable Lap Band Surgery in Mexico – MedToGo
I was doing some morality research on Lap Band surgery and stumbled across this website. Due to the proximity of Mexico, surgical procedures have to be cheaper than India or Thailand.
Maybe we should start asking application questions like:
“Within the past five years have you had, or are you considering having, any form of surgery outside of the United States?”
A guide for Americans seeking affordable medical treatment abroad – Los Angeles Times
If you thought India was a bit too exotic for that TKR, how about Mexico instead? This is one interesting trend. We’ll continue to post articles on medical tourism as we find them.