Medical tourism
Serious question!
Over the course of the last few years the numbers of people travelling abroad for medical treatment has great at a great rate.
Indeed a recent figure suggested that in the Uk it could be around 50,000. Although by definition we cannot be certain of such a figure.
The kind of treatments seem to be very varied from people with multiple sclerosis having full scale CCSVI surgery, through In vitro fertilisation (IVF) for women who wish to become pregnant, to simple dental operations taken while on a normal holiday.
How about would you consider what is referred to as medical tourism?
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We are pretty lucky in the UK with MS treatments and we don’t have to pay for the majority of it. I live in the North East of England and we have four huge hospitals in a ten mile radius so we’re spoiled for choice, I have no complaints.