medical tourism mecca
At this website, medical tourism becomes Medical Tourism. It’s basically a global one-stop shop for any ‘overseas’ medical procedure: heart bypass, tummy tuck, root canal work. You can clock on the map of the world, to check out what particular regions have to offer, or you can just browse through the site, enjoying the peaceful, soothing layout and the photographs of fishermen and rocky beaches, deck chairs and cherubs. What fishermen and rocky beaches have to do with having an operation, I cannot say — let alone cherubs.
One amusing, small US-centrism: the flight times to particular regions are all calculated from LA and NYC. Thailand, for example, is “a very long flight.” You can also obtain an online quote, I guess for the cost of the trip, the surgery, hotel rooms and maybe a bus tour thrown in.
Heh.
oh, wow.
i know what i’m doing this summer…
i love the juxtaposition of sunny beach photos and images of people in surgical attire. i also love that on the click-map, “asia” is huge, yet i can only find thailand in the “asia” sub-section of destinations.
…and, yes, cherubs…
Comment by nixwilliams — August 11, 2006 @ 1:57 am
Yeah, although this is quite bizarre, because India is doing a lot of marketing about medical tourism too.
Comment by Az — August 13, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
On a related note, check out this blog entry:
“Forget sex tourism; fertility tourism is the wave of the future. Want to choose your child’s sex via PGD, a practice currently banned in Canada, England, Germany, France, and Japan? Go to Thailand. Go! Enjoy! Just think of all the nice people you’ll meet, many of them from China and India.”
(original post has links too)
Comment by sorenson — August 15, 2006 @ 9:34 pm
Has Anyone Actually Tried Medical Tourism? We’ve read about it, heard about it, and even talked about it. But how many of us know someone who has gone on a health vacation to India? Anyone ever come back from Thailand with a new hip? Is there any forum where real people can discuss real medical tourism issues - http://www.healthmedicaltourism.org
Comment by healthmedicaltourism — March 11, 2008 @ 9:47 am
Only people subscribed to my comments feed will probably read this, but I can’t help pointing out the irony of how I attracted a spam comment to this post from a serious medical tourism agent site. Heh. I don’t think this is the readership they’re looking for.
Comment by Az — June 3, 2008 @ 5:40 pm