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Medical Tourism?

8 February, 20098 February, 2009 5 comments Uncategorized Uncategorized

My husband just had open heart surgery a month ago here in one of Israel's world-class hospitals. We researched going abroad for the procedure and realized that we had the best care available here in our own backyard. The doctors ( who were experts in their field) were brilliant and the procedure was very successful.  The facility was like a 5-star hotel with a grand piano and espresso bar in the lobby!
I was surprised to find many "tourists" in the hospital who came to Israel for plastic surgery, gastro procedures and other operations which cost a fraction of what they would cost in the USA. I met one family who went touring while "Mom" was recovering from a nose job! They all seemed very pleased with their choice. And their surgeon was a top specialist from NY who moved to Israel a few years ago. Needless to say, the whole family enjoyed a wonderful vacation and they had the procedure done for a lot less than it would have cost them at hom.

I was wondering if anyone else ever considered coming to Israel for a medical procedure. If so, what type? And what information would be useful to get?

(I'm asking because my friend was the NY surgeon who moved here. He would like to know if there is an interest in "medical" tourism)

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  • By Anonymous 454 Days Ago
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    I just read your blog about Medical Tourism in Israel. Yes, there is an interest in "Medical Tourism". Medical Tourism is one of the fastest growing tourism. I'm confident that Medicare will offer coverage in Medical Tourism in the very near future.
    Jeanette Braxton
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  • By Anonymous 453 Days Ago
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    Which hospital was this? Israel truly has the best of everything (except rain!!)
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    Although the venous angioplasty therapy on neck veins has been done for MS patients at CCSVI Clinic only for the last 18 months it has been performed on narrow or occluded neck veins for other reasons for many years. “Where we encounter blocked neck veins resulting in a reflux of blood to the brain, we treat it as a disease,” says Gupte. “It’s not normal pathology and we have seen improved health outcomes for patients where we have relieved the condition with minimal occurrences of re-stenosis long-term. We believe that our record of safety and success is due to our post-procedure protocol because we have had to take patients back to the OR to re-treat them in that 10-day period. Otherwise some people could have run into trouble, no question.”

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    “That just couldn’t happen here, but the sooner we develop written standards and best practices for the liberation procedure and observe them in practice, the safer the MS community will be”, says Dr. Gupte. “The way it is now is just madness. Everyone seems to be taking shortcuts. We know that it is expensive to keep patients in a clinical setting over a single night much less 10 days, but it’s quite absurd to release them the same day they have the procedure. We have always believed it to be unsafe and now it has proven to be unsafe. The thing is, are Synergy Health Concepts and other clinics doing the Liberation Treatment going to be changing their aftercare methods even though they know it is unsafe to release a patient on the same day? The answer is no, even after Mrs. Clarke’s unfortunate and unnecessary death. Therefore, they are not focused on patient safety…it’s become about money only and lives are being put at risk as a result.”

    Joanne Warkentin of Morden Manitoba, an MS patient who recently had both the liberation therapy and stem cell therapy at CCSVI Clinic agrees with Dr. Gupte. “Discharging patients on the same day as the procedure is ridiculous. I was in the hospital being monitored for 12 days before we flew back. People looking for a place to have the therapy must do their homework to find better options. We found CCSVI Clinic and there’s no place on earth that’s better to go for Liberation Therapy at the moment. I have given my complete medical file from CCSVI Clinic over to my Canadian physician for review.” For more information Log on to http://ccsviclinic.ca/?p=866 OR Call on Toll Free: 888-419-6855.
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