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Julie Munro Have Bangkok’s medical tourism glory days come to an end?

What is the future of Thailand’s medical tourism?


In the days immediately following the anti-government protests in Bangkok, social network user
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Added by Julie Munro on August 12, 2010 at 5:11am — No Comments

Julie Munro Are you ready for medical tourism 2.0?


My medical travel agency, Cosmetic Surgery Travel, has evolved and changed – what we did eight years ago is significantly different from what we are doing today.

Now, what I advise newcomers to the industry is very different compared with the advice I gave five years ago. Today, when I talk with clients about issues in the industry, I ask them to consider a number of questions as they develop or review their business strategy for a… Continue

Added by Julie Munro on July 7, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Julie Munro Business strategies for changing times in medical tourism.


Protesting about the lack of patients or the poor service given by providers or agencies is not new.

In the first wave of enthusiasm for the business of medical tourism, despite millions of dollars being invested by businesses and hospitals, only a few companies actually delivered patients, and just a few long term business relationships were realized. These companies, and these relationships, continue to be strong today. The others? They complained about the lack of patie

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Added by Julie Munro on July 7, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Julie Munro U.S. health care reform vs. medical tourism

And the winner is...

Within days of passage of the new US health care reform bill, we already see signs of how it might impact medical tourism in the next few years and beyond.


How will Obamacare, as the new health c

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Added by Julie Munro on April 11, 2010 at 9:47am — No Comments

Julie Munro When the hospital is the patient... and the website needs intensive care...

If you haven’t recently visited – or read – your hospital’s website, you may want to take a closer look at it. It may be very sick. Any facilitator linking to and promoting hospitals expecting to get help in closing a patient or an employer, needs to take a hard look at these sites.


In building web pages for the Top 10 World’s Best Hos

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Added by Julie Munro on April 11, 2010 at 5:37am — No Comments

Julie Munro Let's go Global! Universal! Galactic! with medical tourism

The escalation of superlatives in medical tourism is spiraling to ridiculous heights. Not only do we now have global healthcare - formerly the purview of such august institutions as the World Health Organization, and well-financed philanthropic organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We now have a medical tourism research center. It's about time, I thought, when I first read of it. Let's get some real studies done. Let's track some real data. Let's put an end to these crazy nu… Continue

Added by Julie Munro on December 8, 2009 at 9:31am — No Comments

Julie Munro Cyberchondriac

Heard a new word on the latest TV show about doctors, Royal Pains. “Cyberchondriac” is the new healthcare consumer who reads up on his/her symptoms on the internet and self-diagnoses. In the extreme, the cyberchondriac will even tell the doctor how to treat the condition. The root of the word, of course, comes from hypochondriac – a person who believes he suffers from imaginary illness or symptoms. What a perfect word for a condition that is familiar to any medical travel facilitator who’s been… Continue

Added by Julie Munro on September 29, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Debbie Norwitz Some Things to Know About Medical Travel!

There are things to consider about going overseas for any medical procedure. If you're planning to work with a Medical Tourism Company. do your research to ensure the company has all the requirements you need. About Medical Tourism: * Simply put Medical Tourism means traveling to a country other than your own for medical procedures. * People travel overseas usually to save money on elective surgery that is not life-threatening and would be very expensive in their own country. Surgery can also… Continue

Added by Debbie Norwitz on September 28, 2009 at 2:22pm — No Comments

Julie Munro Medical Tourism: Here today, here to stay? Or born too soon, gone tomorrow?

If you haven’t yet read Ian Youngman’s article in the latest issue of the International Medical Travel Journal, I urge you to do so. He asks, What happened to those 2008 medical tourism forecasts? Even the most conservative prediction of 1,6 million medical tourists – more than double 2007 numbers – seems outrageously high. It suggests that the airline indus… Continue

Added by Julie Munro on September 18, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

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