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• Josef Woodman
• ISBN: 978-0-9791079-2-4
• Available 20 July 2008!
• Paperback, 412 Pages,
  5-1/2" x 8-1/2"
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Did you know that 180,000 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 in Singapore, health travelers now have a full array of the world's safest, best choices in healthcare facilities and physicians.

Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism. Impartial and extensively researched, it is filled with authoritative and accessible advice—carefully culled from hundreds of resources here and abroad. Whether you're seeking dental work, heart surgery, orthopedics, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, or LASIK^TM eye repair, Patients Beyond Borders is your best way to become an informed health traveler and get started on your health travel journey.

Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia Hospitals

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. Part Two: The Most-Traveled Health Destinations, provides never-before-published information on every common medical procedure, the leading international hospitals and clinics, and your safest, hassle-free path to a successful medical journey. 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.
• How 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.

Includes Patients Beyond Borders Treatment and Country Finder^TM, Budget Planner and Health Trip Checklist. 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 on the Web, Woodman has compiled a wealth of information for the American public about important healthcare choices.

Patients Beyond Borders is your complete guide to a world of new and affordable healthcare options.

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

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

A must read for those considering medical tourism.

ABC News