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The first comprehensive guide to medical travel, giving potential health travelers the most up-to-date information, pros, cons, considerations, and step-by-step instructions for a successful and cost-effective journey. Don't travel overseas for any medical procedure without reading this beneficial guide.

Title: Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism
Author: Josef Woodman
Edition: 2007
Pages:  339

Did you know that 150,000 Americans now travel abroad every year for affordable, high-quality health care?  From Thailand’s American-accredited Bumrungrad hospital to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Clinic to Johns Hopkins International, health travelers now have a full array of the world’s safest, best choices in healthcare facilities and physicians.  Now available to assist with this growing movement, Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism.  It’s also a first-rate manual for overseas travel—impartial, extensively researched, and filled with authoritative and accessible advice—carefully culled from hundreds of resources here and abroad.

Medical Tourism is a booming industry and a familiar practice for many Europeans, yet it is just becoming known to Americans.  Patients Beyond Borders gives U.S. citizens a leg up with well-researched, easy to understand information, compiled in a friendly accessible format
Stephanie Sulger, RN, MS Medical Tours International

Whether you’re seeking dental work, heart surgery, orthopedics, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, or LASIK eye repair, Patients Beyond Borders is your best way to become an informed health traveler and get started on your health travel journey.  Patients Beyond Borders is absolutely the most thorough and useful guide to health travel for Americans and it’s available to order right now at your fingertips.

Author Josef Woodman has spent more than three years researching contemporary medical tourism, interviewing patients, practitioners, administrators, government officials and specialists in the field, while conducting an extensive analysis of safety records, accreditations, success rates and consumer trends.  With significant resources and contacts from his pioneering background in health technology, Woodman has compiled a wealth of information for the American public about important healthcare choices.

When I went abroad for my surgery, a guide like this would have saved me a lot of time and even more money.  Health travel is rewarding, but it can be complicated and it is hard to stay organized. Patients Beyond Borders makes planning and taking a trip so much easier.
Doug Stoda, Tomah, WI

Don’t take any unnecessary risks when the keys to successful health travel can be found in this thoughtful and comprehensive guide!  Everything you need to know, from tax-deductibility to selecting a professional health travel planner and choosing a travel companion, is discussed in this valuable and well-organized resource.

Part One: How to Become a Savvy, Informed Medical Traveler, gives you all the information and tools you need to make safe, intelligent and cost-effective decisions about healthcare abroad.  It carefully covers each aspect of medical travel planning and proposes many critical questions to help you obtain the best possible services.

Part Two: The Most-Traveled Health Destinations provides never-before-published information on treatment centers, health travel agents, treatment specialties and super-specialties, recovery retreats, accommodations and more.

This eBook edition also includes Patients Beyond Borders Treatment and Country Finder™, Budget Planner and Health Trip Checklist.

When you read Patients Beyond Borders you’ll learn:

• How to determine if medical travel is right for you, an impartial overview of benefits and cautions. (Plus “20 Do’s and Don’ts for the Smart Health Traveler”).
• How to find the best hospitals and clinics around the world, with detailed accreditation information, treatment specialties and comparative costs.
• To plan and budget your trip for the safest, most cost-effective health journey. Includes hundreds of practical tips on getting the very best treatment, often at significant savings.

Today, the world’s safest, best choices in healthcare facilities and physicians are available to health travelers who plan and budget wisely, and this indispensible eBook will allow you to become a savvy, informed international patient.  You’ll especially want to have this guide handy, because not only is Patients Beyond Borders the easy-to-follow guide to health tourism, it’s also an excellent manual for overseas travel that will benefit you in many ways.