| The term "Medical Tourism" also known as health | | | | received in Mexico is excellent. Mexican hospitals |
| tourism is becoming very popular in these days. It | | | | are not popular only for dental and plastic surgery |
| means to travel across different countries to find | | | | but they provide quality services for bar iatric |
| health care. These health care or treatments | | | | surgery for weight loss. Lap band surgery, a |
| include common problems and complex | | | | popular bar iatric surgery is approved by FDA in |
| treatments such as cardiac surgery, joint | | | | 2001 in US is also performed by the surgeons of |
| replacement, cosmetic surgery and dental | | | | Mexico. The hospitals of Mexico are well equipped |
| surgery. The customer and provider communicate | | | | with latest technology and medical equipments for |
| through reliable sources to assure quality of | | | | all medical tourism requirements. |
| service and making contract. Such medical tours | | | | Medical Tourism in Panama |
| need leisure aspects of tourism and travel. Health | | | | Panama is also a popular place for medical tourism |
| tourism patients should know the extra cost in | | | | due to its tourist appeal, position and use of dollar |
| traveling, health care and accommodations on | | | | as the official currency. The medical specialists of |
| treatment locations. The popularity of medical | | | | Panama are very popular all over the world and |
| tourism is increased by many factors such as long | | | | use latest technology and equipment to treat |
| waits for certain procedures, high costs, | | | | patients. Doctors of Panama are bilingual and can |
| affordability of travel, standard and quality of | | | | operate on the same technology and medical |
| health and care services. Medical tourists travel to | | | | equipment which are used in Europe and America. |
| Europe, United States, UK, Canada, Middle East, | | | | The charges of health care in Panama are 50% |
| Canada and Japan to obtain quality health care | | | | less than the charges of US. In addition to dental |
| services at reasonable prices. | | | | implants, assisted reproduction, plastic surgery, |
| Medical Tourism in Mexico | | | | cosmetic dentistry, cardialogy, eye surgery |
| The specialists of plastic surgery and dentistry are | | | | orthopedics and pulmonology are the popular |
| very popular in Mexico. Medical tourism patients | | | | treatments in the hospitals of Panama for people |
| travel to Mexico from all over the world to obtain | | | | in medical tourism to this country. |
| quality medical care in dentistry and plastic | | | | The equipment and technology used in the |
| surgery. Americans also move to Mexico for | | | | hospitals of Panama is up-to-date and the |
| dental health care because the charges of dentist | | | | hospitals are affiliated with international |
| in America are very high as compare to the | | | | organizations such as Cleveland Clinic, Baptist |
| charges of Mexican dentist. Mexican dentists | | | | Health International of Miami, Johns Hopkins |
| charge one fourth to one fifth of US dentists | | | | International, Miami Children's Hospital, Tulane |
| price. This trend of medical tourism to Mexico is | | | | Health Science Center, University of Nebraska |
| very alarming for American dentists so they have | | | | Medical Center, Harvard Medical Faculty and |
| spread many rumors of infections, oral cancer | | | | Physicians at Beth Israel, The Kendall Medical |
| and poor treatments against Mexican dentists. | | | | Center in Florida and Deaconess Medical Center in |
| In Texas, it is explored that health organizations | | | | US. The doctors of these hospitals have latest |
| can operate on both sides of the border but | | | | information about the diseases and medicines. |
| physicians of south Texas argue that they cannot | | | | US trained physicians of Panama provide high |
| compete with the lower costs of Mexican | | | | quality medical services at reasonable prices. The |
| dentists. Legal system of Mexico doesn't allow | | | | techniuqes used in health care, facilities and |
| any kind of sue against Mexican doctors. Medical | | | | medications are not less than USA. Panama is rich |
| tourists are satisfied with the quality of health | | | | with beautiful tourism destinations such as |
| services in Mexico and according to an advocacy | | | | mountains, beaches and natural places which |
| group of health care issues 90 percent care they | | | | affect medical tourists pleasantly. |