What is medical tourism, and what does it mean for your patients? How should we react when our patients tell us they plan to leave the country for a procedure?

What’s Up Radio Program with Terry Lowry – August 15, 2009
Many Americans are traveling to foreign countries for expensive medical procedures and saving a bundle. With savings of 70 to 80%, Patrick Marsek explains this growing service industry.
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MT3 Radio – Julie Monroe – August 8, 2009
Julie Munro interviews Patrick Marsek, the co-author of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Medical Tourism”, a new guide book for healthcare consumers.

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With approximately 150,000 Americans seeking medical care overseas, the American Medical Association (AMA) is offering guidance for these so-called medical tourists, many of whom are enticed by this option as a way to save money. Dr. James Rohack, president-elect of the AMA, joins host Bruce Japsen to [...]

Medical tourism is big business. Every year tens of thousands of patients roam the planet in search of cheaper health care than they can get at home.
This vast industry, worth billions of dollars, involves governments, insurance companies, investment banks and of course patients and medical personnel all over the world.
For some medical [...]

Medical tourism is big business. Every year tens of thousands of patients roam the planet in search of cheaper health care than they can get at home.
Six months on from successful surgery on his spine in Poland, the American author Timothy O’Grady, examines the growth in the popularity of medical tourism.
Every year, thousands of [...]

WVON Radio Chicago – Bonnie DeShong & Ja’Vonne Harley – May 11, 2009
Interview with Patrick Marsek about the concept of medical tourism and the book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Medical Tourism.”