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Is Health Care Tourism Dangerous?

Posted June 24, 2010 7:29 AM

Popular Science reports on a recent trend in health care tourism. Patients are traveling to receive treatments that they cannot get in their own home countries. Are unregulated stem-cell therapies, experimental treatments, and new medications providing people with safe and effective alternatives? Or, are these medical adventures dangerous?

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06/24/2010 10:54 AM

They can be dangerous, but if a person is terminal, it's better than no treatment at all. If it were me, I would probably seek treatment in China as they have so many centuries of medicine in their background that some Western doctors look to for new and radical treatments. To me it would be as a last resort.

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06/24/2010 10:41 PM

".. but if a person is terminal, it's better than no treatment at all" That's not always be true, some of the "alternative" treatments (in under regulated countries) can be quite harmful.

The real problem is that these scams drain the life savings of desperate people, leaving the surviving family broke.

The reality is that western medicine is the best chance you've got. For all it's faults it actually uses techniques and medicines that are (statistically) known to work.

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06/25/2010 10:56 AM

I gave you a GA as what you say is very important. Western medicine is still the best there is. If it is terminal, you have probably seen more than one doctor. Pick the one you trust and ask his opinion of alternative medicines. He will set you straight.

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06/25/2010 1:45 AM

As with most things, caveat emptor. I can understand why some people feel compelled to seek treatment out of the country. However, one should fully investigate the "treatments" offered elsewhere with an open mind with a healthy dose of skepticism. Our FDA can be slow at times to approve treatments, but for the truly desparate, chances are there is a study ongoing where one can apply to be included in the clinical trials.

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06/25/2010 8:40 AM

Most of the people in power are looting their cuntry resources & treatment abroad is a cover-up and host countries know it well but allow them & cover them for their intrests.

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06/28/2010 3:58 AM

Dangerous to whom? If you want to go the Philippines for psychic surgery, it's not dangerous to me, so I won't stop you. I'll just call you crazy. But I don't favor meddling.

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