Friday, June 25, 2010

Latest Cosmetic Procedures

Medical tourism as it is popularly known does not mean that it is some loose tourism and some healthcare screening tests or some easy to go wellness package. As name, medical tourism suggests it is sort of medical evacuation for some urgent medical illness, which needs to provide some relief by some medical procedure at some overseas destination. Some people have named it as medic travel, global healthcare or even health tourism.

It all started with people going overseas and finding exceptionally low costs of surgical procedures and most of the people when for screening and plastic and cosmetic surgery procedures. But now medical tourism has evolved beyond it and patients and tourists are finding help for complex procedures like cancer and neurosurgery. Medical tourism is also becoming famous due to finding top class doctors in their fields of specialization at destination over seas. Thus providing a chance for a patient to be treated by a specialist in his field which some times is hard to find in their native country. Also the scheduling of the appointments is give priority at destinations of medical tourism which is not the case in their native country due to high number of such cases and long waiting lists for surgeries.

The medical tourism, part as plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery procedures been very attractive due to many insurances did not provide coverage to procedures done under the name of cosmetic surgery and some times being done for the preferences of patients in order to get prettier and more nice looking insurance companies never agreed to foot the bills of these high cost procedures in western world. This led to tourists and patients seek help overseas to find doctors and hospitals providing these procedures. They started coming to perform these procedure sand with these plastic and cosmetic surgical procedures they took some tourism packages thus resulting in called as medical tourism.

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