Dr Prem's GuideBook - Medical Tourism

Dr. Prem’s - Medical Tourism Guide Book is an initiative to provide a comprehensive source of information for anyone considering medical travel. The book is aimed for consumers, but it also works as a reference guide for industry experts. It includes key information on deciding for medical travel and 20 essential planning and preparation steps for the entire medical journey. It also highlights the top medical tourism destinations around the world and common medical procedures that patients travel for. Finally, the book is enhanced with checklists and recommendations to further enhance the reading and understanding of this burgeoning industry.

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Dr Prem's   medical Tourism Guidebook is a refernce book for industry Experts

The burgeoning medical sector of health care tourism has witnessed tremendous growth over the past few years, yet despite of this, it has yet to reach its full potential.

Although there is a large amount of information available online as well as in print, many consumers remain uninformed, confused, or unwilling to commit to this treatment option. It appears that potential customers haven’t fully grasped the true magnitude and incredible benefits that medical tourism can offer.

To help address this knowledge deficit, Dr. Prem Jagyasi, renowned medical tourism expert, author and chartered consultant, has taken the initiative to provide a comprehensive source of information for those considering health care tourism. His forthcoming guidebook dedicated to the subject provides valuable information and advice for those wanting to know more about the choices on offer.

In addition to helping the consumer, Dr. Jagyasi’s through an analysis of the various options available, the publication aims to give the medical tourism industry a significant boost that will enable it to realise its full capabilities.”

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Benefits & Challenges of Medical Tourism

The realm of medical services has expanded its horizon by offering global healthcare at much reasonable rates, so patients worldwide can benefit from it. The escalating growth and popularity of the medical tourism sector demonstrates the variety of advantages patients can achieve by engaging in medical travel. The most important and obvious benefit for patients are the low-cost and high quality healthcare options in medical tourism destination, as the healthcare costs in their countries are extremely high. But benefits are not limited to cost saving and high quality of care alone; there are many benefits—if we classify them we can have as many as seven individual categories for such benefits which encourage patients to step out of their geographies. Also, the idea of recuperating from a treatment and relaxing in an exotic location should be enough of a reason to get patients packing their suitcases and heading towards the airport.

 Seven benefits of medical tourism for consumers

1. Affordability (cost saving)
2. Easy accessibility (immediate treatment)
3. Availability of services at other destinations
4. Better quality of healthcare services
5. Privacy
6. Personalized services aboard
7. Tourism benefits

Challenges of medical tourism that all potential travellers should understand before a decision to avail medical services abroad is made:

1. Access to correct information
2. Problems with pre- and post-operative care
3. Language and cultural barriers
4. Coping with infections in foreign countries
5. Legal & ethical issues
6. Incorrect estimation of costs
7. Authenticating qualifications of doctor/surgeon

Introduction

Prem’s guidebook on medical tourism is an initiative to provide a comprehensive source of information for anyone considering medical travel. The book is aimed for consumers, but it also works as a reference guide for industry experts. It includes key information on deciding for medical travel and 20 essential planning and preparation steps for the entire medical journey. It also highlights the top medical tourism destinations around the world and common medical procedures that patients travel for. Finally, the book is enhanced with checklists and recommendations to further enhance the reading and understanding of this burgeoning industry. Visit www.drprem.com for more details.