Cost & Quality of hospitals,
doctors, dentists compared in 17+ Countries for medical
travels-U.S.A.,
Europe, Argentian, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Hong
Kong,
India, Mexico, Philippines,Hungary, Singapore,Thailand,
Turkey, and U. K.
MEDICALCOUNTRIES.ORG (TM) Typical Medical charges and Air-Fairs to Various
Countries
are compared, but any provider may
individually charge you much less or much more
than the listed prices. You need to ask your
provider.
The 3 row, partial Chart
Citation below, made on 25 July, 2007, is from
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
(Wikimedia Foundation Inc.), "Medical
Tourism" External Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#History
|
USA |
Europe |
Argentina |
Bolivia |
Brazil |
Colombia |
Costa
Rica |
India |
Mexico |
| Rhinoplasty |
$
6,000 |
$
5,500 |
$
2,300 |
$
1,200 |
$
2,100 |
$
2,000 |
$
1,500 |
$
1,700 |
$
1,500 |
| Face
Lift |
$
15,000 |
$
12,500 |
$
4,300 |
$
2,600 |
$
4,500 |
$
4,200 |
$
2,900 |
$
4,500 |
$
3,000 |
The 5 row chart below was created by
medicalcountries.org, and prices will vary by date researched.
| Round
Trip |
NYC |
London,
England |
Argentina,
Buenos
Aires |
Bolivia,
La
Paz |
Brazil,
Rio
de
Janeiro |
Colombia.
Bogota |
Costa
Rica,
San Jose |
India,
Mumbai |
Mexico,
Cancun |
| New York City |
|
$729 |
$640 |
$1028 |
$1069 |
$604 |
$298 |
$1027 |
$502 |
| London |
€308 |
|
€1,134 |
€1654 |
€529 |
€1156 |
€546 |
€292 |
€546 |
| Miami |
$168 |
$1131 |
$1046 |
$701 |
$1001 |
$511 |
$278 |
$1,350 |
$403 |
| Prices From:---http://www.priceline.com,
and Bookingbuddy.com .
Put in: Your
destination, Flights Only, Round Trip, Tuesday, Anytime, 30 days+ in
advance, for the above lowest flight
prices. (Are Taxes and fees included in your quoted
price?) |
1 Flight costs dramatically vary seasonally and with
the provider you choose. …-………….
2Flying to San Diego, or El Paso and then taking the
trolley to Tijuana, or Ciudad Juarez
is about $600 dollars cheaper than flying to
the Mexican airports. …………-………………….
3Students at U.S. Dental Schools frequently charge 20%
to 70% less than U.S. dentists
--but the faculty dentists of U. S.
dental schools usually charge the same as U.S.
dentists.
--Contact Dental Schools near you for
prices. External Link: -
http://www.dentalschools.com/
4 Denture prices are less in
some U.S. locations than other parts of the world
(example:
--As low as
$170. for a full denture set) In your search engine try: dentures
Florence,
--S. C. and check many other providers of your
choice.…
Medical Tourism Prices, History and another
Chart compares costs in USA, Europe, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Mexico,
Philippines -Exterior Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#History
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Low Costs Lure Foreigners to India for Medical Care;
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How do GOVERNMENTS CREATE your high
medical costs while pretending concern?
1. Choose a possible
country to go to for medical treatment, Health and Safety issues,
and
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2. Get a telephone card for
the country of your choice and/or use your Internet
telephone.
3. Doctors and
Hospitals--Pick a provider in that country, check them out, and get
prices
and a currency converter.
4. Hospitals, Nursing
Homes, and Doctors Accreditation (Quality), and
Costs
5. Determine time of year
to go which depends on airline fares and weather at various
times.
6. Determine where to
stay in the country of your choice.
7. Get a passport and
visa, to the country of your choice, it can take
months.
8. Determine how to pay for
anything in the country of your choice
9 . Allergy Remedies,
Safe and unsafe drug, and drug-food combinations, counter-
indications, side
effects, substitutions, low cost drug sources.
10. Alternative Medical
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11. Telemedicine for your
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Alternatives
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17. Buying
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How do GOVERNMENTS CREATE your high medical costs
while pretending concern?------------------
Congress, the States and colleges, for their personal
gain, determine, produce, cause, and create the high fees of doctors and dentists. They do
this by: 1. unnecessary, prolonged education 2. limiting the number
of doctors and dentists that can be trained 3. and by federal under funding of
medical residencies (the graduate training required of all doctors). The medical
lobby purposefully limits the supply of medical services and controls medical
costs in all states. No medical/dental school or hospital can be created without
the permission of state government. The number of medical students allowed is
subject to state regulation and approval by each state branch of the American
Medical Association (thereby supporting the personal gain of doctors): Each year
only about 18,000 USA doctors are allowed to be trained even though there is an
extreme shortage of doctors in some rural areas (1 doctor to
5000 patients
-External Link http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor-shortage_x.htm
In some years, only 37% of applicants are admitted to medical school,
and only 33.5% of applicants to dental school. (Fairly Recently seven dental
schools were closed and enrollees have been
reduced in the other existing open schools,
example:There was 6301 first year enrollees In 1978 down
to only 4618 in 2007, but with a 36% population increase from 1978 to 2007 there
should have been 6301 x 1.36 = 8569 first year enrollees to equal the same
supply to population
of
first year enrollees as existed in
1978.) In some treated groups many die of diseases
caused by decayed teeth, 27%+ cavities go untreated and some low-income children
must wait six months for surgery because of the artificially limited supply,
Dentists are unaffordable
and make $185,000+yearly with many specialists making $300,000+. Many say they
do not go to dentists because prices are to high, and thousands of dentists have
stopped accepting insurance.
U. S. Dental School
applicants and First-Year Enrollment
Trends
http://www.adea.org/publications/Trends
in Dental Education/TDEPresentations/Documents/Applicants.ppt
yearly
number of first year enrollees from 1955 to 2007
Just
from 1993 to 2008 more than 371,060 students were prevented from becoming doctors. Education is used as a weapon to
limit supply, increase prices, and promote government and school business! There
could be more than twice the number of doctor/dentists in the USA, if
governments would stop artificially creating these high medical/dental, and
hospital costs, and stop breaking the hearts of applying doctor/dentists, there
would be little need for health insurance, our cars would not cost $1,500 more,
and our industries would be more able to compete with other countries! About 18%
of USA citizens' yearly income goes for medical costs (about 2.2 trillion
dollars per year). (All links are
External)
National
Applicants to medical schools, Source: Cornell, Berkeley and the American
Association of Medical Colleges from 1993 to 2007 Applicants/Accepted:
External Links
http://www.career.cornell.edu/HealthCareers/acceptedApplied.html
http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/national.stm
,http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/msar.htm
U.S. Medical
School Applicants and Students 1982-83 to 2007-08
http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/charts1982to2007.pdf
Applications to Colleges Are Breaking
Records:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/education/17admissions.html
In most countries of the world, medical
students go directly from high school to medical/dental school where they
learn everything they need to know including anatomy, physics, chemistry,
biology, genetics, histology, calculus, medical diagnosis, the ethical and
emotional treatment of patients, etc. This is true in China,
India, Germany, France,
England, etc. (World Wide medical school requirements)
External Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school
But in the USA
and Canada, medical students are prevented
from getting 4 extra years of learning and practice as a doctor by the
requirement that they must take irrelevant college courses for 4 years before
medical school.
New Doctors Awash in Dept
External Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/health/19cost.html
this is why some Indian doctors in their 30s have done more procedures than USA
doctors ever do! While future medical students are undergraduates in college,
they cannot be competing against practicing physicians and dentists. This scheme
increases the physician's/dentist's incomes and provides additional income for
colleges and jobs for professors, but it can bankrupt and kill you, the
consumer! Remember, it is YOU who must ultimately pay for
these diversionary educational requirements that are soon
forgotten.
The Forgetting
Curve: External Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
How
did this irrelevant educational diversion
start? In 1910 the
doctors were not making the amount of money they desired, and were getting more
competition than they wanted from their own kind and from several alternative
medical systems. Many medical schools were poor, some with no dispensary, no
lab, no ability for the students to see sick patients, lots of untrained
teachers, no cadavers for anatomy class, etc.This gave the medical lobby an
excuse for why they needed more education in order to "help the public." What is
needed is good education, not
more irrelevant education. But
what was and is more important to the medical lobbies are the changes needed to
be kept in force to realize the goal of high wages and status. So, the majority
of medical schools were closed (over 100, especially black and female schools),
4 more years of irrelevant education was added, and many medical students were
prevented from ever becoming doctors. "Flexner Report:"
External links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report
For a free copy of the "Flexner Report" click here:
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/files/elibrary/flexner_report.pdf (On page 167
of the "Flexner Report" it is explained how the lobby would control medical
institutions and workers through the misuse of state boards. "The state boards
are the instruments through which the reconstruction of medical education will
be largely effected. To them the graduate in medicine applies for the license to
practice.The boards determine: 1. The preliminary educational requirements. 2.
The facilities required of the medical schools. 3. Examination of the student
for licensure.")
How is competition eliminated
and your costs increased? By constructing what
economists call
"Barriers to Entry" Externl Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry
States increase your costs by:
1. Closing the majority of medical/dental schools
and refusing to let enough new medical/dental schools ------be built. (They Do)
2. Limiting the
funding of medical residencies, (the graduate training required of all doctors)
(They Do)
3.
Refusing to let enough students into your state's existing medical/dental
schools, even though the
-----population has increased and is older
and sicker and needs more care. (They Do)
4. Demanding 4
more years of irrelevant schooling, which is not required in most other countries. This
------costs the student
$200,000+, deprives the doctor/dentist of 4 years of medical experience
and
------prevents many from
ever attending medical/dental school. (They Do)
5.-Not providing
free Medical/Dental
Schools (as in many
countries). Schools often cost $60,000 a year.
6. Requiring the passing
of tests that only a small percentage of the population can pass, and not ------building
enough medical/dental
schools, preventing students from even going to school. (They Do)
7. Continually
extending the years of schooling and training required. (They Do)
8. Requiring
doctors to pass licensing tests that they have already passed in other states.
(They Do)
9.
Requiring nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, anesthetists, and physician's
assistants, to work ------under
a doctor. Others can
do much of the work doctors do at 40% of the cost. (They Do)
10. Not allow
technicians to be trained to do only a small part of a specialty. (The V.A. does
allow this.)
------Example:
Proponents of Dental Therapists say their training (2 Years) is comparable to
the ------practical training that
dentists receive and studies conclude the quality of the work is comparable to
------dentists, and sometimes
better. In 50 countries Dental Therapists successfully treat patients at much
------lower costs. (This has been
the case for 90 years in New Zealand, and recently in Alaska.) (They Do)
Shows the number of doctors, lawyers
and Engineers per thousand U.S. persons from 1900 to 2000: External Link http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/2work4.htm
The restriction of supply
gave physicians the highest average income of any occupational
group.
The U.S. spends over twice as much for health care as most
other industrialized countries but it has
fallen to last place in preventing
deaths through health care, according to the Commonwealth Fund. External Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/business/17health.html
Dental Clinics: Meeting a Need With NO Dentist
External
Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/28teeth.html
Medical Licensure by
Professor Milton Friedman External Link http://www.fff.org/freedom/0194e.asp
In Massachusetts, Universal
Coverage Strains Care -
External Link http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/05doctors.html
It is easy to see
how the number of doctors and other medical providers can be limited to any
number
that provides a short supply, and thus offers little competition and
high cost to you. But, because of the
limited number and too many patients,
(some doctors see 60 patients a day) doctors cannot spend enough time to really
treat or diagnose the diseases you have, or explain what you need to do to
become healthy. Massachusetts has the highest number of physicians per 1000
Americans, 4.3 and Oklahoma has the 2nd lowest number, 1.6. This causes the
income of a primary care physician after residency in MA to be 120K, and the
income of a primary care physician in OK to be 250K. There is no difference in
work or training. This shows the results of a limited supply and the reasons for
your high costs!!!
Is Government Medical Insurance the solution to high
medical costs? The U.K. has conned their British
citizens with their NHS
while at the same time restricting the number of doctors to 2.45, and .40
dentists per thousand people. This short supply protected high doctor/dentist
incomes under the NHS, and
caused 6% of patients to treat themselves, for
example: pulling their own teeth out with pliers. Many wait 18 months for
treatment and others receive no treatment because they cannot find or afford a
provider. The medical lobby will encourage Barack Obama to make the same mistake
and insurance will increase demand and thus shorten supply and dramatically
increase your costs.
Why is there special government treatment of
physicians and dentists to insure their high income? In the
USA and
Canada students must go to college 4 years longer than in other countries, with
no
improvement in performance, and as few as 37% of these college graduates
are allowed to go to medical school, and as few as 33.5% of dental students. Is this
CAPITALISM? DEMOCRACY? What state and federal laws and constitutions are
being violated? Is this unequal
treatment, unlawful restraint of trade, etc.? This issue needs legal
study, action, and your help!
What can YOU do? This unfair government
action continues because the media, NPR, TV, Radio,
Magazines, and
Newspapers do not report this preferential, immoral treatment enough. We need
to PICKET ALL THE MEDIA, the
Government, AND COLLEGES for these failures, and to bring to the
attention of the public, the media's, college's, and government's pandering to
the doctor's/dentist lobby. The doctor's/dentist lobby, colleges, governments
and media are robbing, impoverishing, and even killing the public by their
actions, and
inactions!
1. Choose a possible country to go to for
medical travel treatment. and Find CHEAP
airfares.
Health and Safety Issues:
Vaccinations for travel to most
countries are not required. It can take 6 months-
- or-more to protect you with
immunity from some diseases.
External Link: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/adult-schedule.htm
----National Immunization Hotline at
1-800-232-2522 (English) or
1-800-232-0233
----(Spanish). A person will answer your general
questions if you call these
----numbers. Usually the cheapest place to get shots is
your county’s health department
----or, if your county does not give shots, a nearby
county may give shots. Look in your
----telephone book for your local county’s
health department telephone number or put
----in “travel shots” in your search
engine to explore the Internet’s resources. -…………………………..-………………
…Safe medical travel,
preventing political, and crime problems.
---External Link:
http://travel.state.gov
…Find Cheap
Airfares:-
--Flight costs dramatically vary
seasonally and with the provider you choose. Make
--reservations way in advance. (30 days+)
Check seasonal differences, (30
days+),
--Fly
on a Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday, Always choose the option “include
--nearby airports” in
your searches, Try an earlier of later travel date, Fare must be
--available both ways. This web
site tends to be cheaper:
http://www.priceline.com
Tip websites for reduced medical
tourism costs: External
Links
…--http://www.travelocity.com/info/info_main/0,,TRAVELOCITY:EN%7CFARE_TIPS,00.html
……http://airfare.michaelbluejay.com/
…These Travel Search Engines
reformats your information to query 120 travel websites.
- -External Links:.http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Web_Sites/General/Finding_Low_Airfares_Online/
----- http://www.kayak.com/
http://www.sidestep.com/air/
-----http://travel.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/c_172201_flights.html---
-----The best strategy
to search for low airline fares to countries with low
medical
2. Get a cheap phone card for the
country of your choice
and/or use your Internet
telephone, if you wish to talk, to some of your
potential providers. You will note
that many providers do not have web sites or email,
and frequently only 1 in 20 will
even respond to your email. In your search engine put
in the words, “international
phone card.” You could buy a phone card in a local
store. You will want to notice
the following of the company you choose: How do they
round the time, are there
any monthly fees, connection fees, maintenance fee,
minimum usage fees,
expiration date, hidden costs, automatic recharging,
additional fees for smaller
purchasers, the contract terms, that the cost for
calling one way is different from
calling the reverse way, that some companies are
cheaper one way but more
expensive the reverse way, that you do not have to
dial a Pin Number, whether
they have a local dialing number for even lower per
minute charges, etc. After you
have studied your choices you can make your decision.
Check this phone card
provider and then see if you can find a better one:
External
Link:
http://www.enjoyprepaid.com/enjoyprepaid/jsp/plan/show_selected_plan_details.jsp?plan_id=
…External Link:-http://www.enjoyprepaid.com-
…World Telephone Directory-External Link: www.numberway.com/
…World Telephone Directory-External Link: http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng-
…International Dialing Codes:-External Link:-http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm
…City/Country Times
World Wide-External Link:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
3. Pick a provider
in the country you choose, (Doctor Quality)-
check them out, and get written prices.
Doctors usually can not work at any
hospital
and the hospital they work at may have high
infections rates or medical mistake
rates thus if one picks a quality hospital
first and then a qualified doctor that works
at that quality hospital one has the best
of both worlds. The number of people in
the U. S. who die, per year, of hospital
infections or medical mistakes is about
100,000 each, or about 200,000 thousand
altogether, a true yearly medical tsunami.
|
4. Compare hospitals,
nursing homes, doctors and other health providers costs and Quality
(accreditation) in various
countries:(18,000 U. S.
hospital providers are compared and charted, for quality, in all the countries
and U.S. states,-but to compare costs you must call each
individually. Costs in hospitals can vary,in a city, by over $1000.00
daily, for rooms or procedures).
…Article on how to select the best
hospitals-External
Link http://www.therubins.com/aging/hospratII.htm
…Crusaders for Quality,
aHealth-Care Intangible -External Link---
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/health/29book.html?ref=science
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
…-
List of Hospitals in Cuba External Link
---- -http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/hospitals.php?country=Cuba
World Wide
list of (JCI) & etc. Accredited Hospitals
(excluding
U.S.) By
Country-Exterior Links:
-…http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/JCI-Accredited-Organizations/
-World Wide list
by country-(excluding
U.S.
----If your having
trouble finding the list of World Wide Accredited Hospitals
with-the above URLs
----do-the following: In you
search engine put in Joint Commission International Web
Site,
put in the key ----words, accredited organizations, in the search
box, click on
Search, -click on
----Accredited
Organizations, click on Accreditation and Certification Process,
click
on
Find an Accredited
Organization,, Scroll down to the country of your interest
----(Even this will not work in all Search
Engines.) but it usually does in Google
---International
Evaluations-External Link:
www.jcrinc.com -1 630 268 7400 Call to
ask
…about a
particular Hospital.
Trent Hospital
Accreditation List for U.K. , Hong Kong External
Link Trent Accreditation
Scheme
United States Accredited Hospitals:
--U.S Hospitals accredited
by
(JCI) http://www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchQCR.as
----JCAHO's web site for checking hospitals-External Link:
-www.qualitycheck.org
-- You can order performance reports free of
charge by calling 630-792-5800.
----(on a particular hospital) International Evaluations-External Link: www.jcrinc.com
----1 630 268
7400 or http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/JCI-Accredited-Organizations/
----Compare Hospitals Performance by
Hospital Name, City, Zip Code, and State-
-----External Link: http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/
----Rate hospitals in your
Zip-External Link: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/home
----This Report Rates 5,000 U. S.
Hospitals on Their Heart Treatment, and
identified 55 where
----patients
died far less often than the
national average. Among those hospitals is NewYork-
----Presbyterian
Hospital. -
----(Article)- External Link http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/us/22hospital.html?
---- “America’s Best Hospitals,” by U.S. News & World
Report External
Link:www.usnews.com------
----- Put in
“America’s Best Hospitals” in their search box
Hospital Quality from U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services External Link:
http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Hospital/Search/Welcome.asp?version=default&browser=IE%7C7%
----Patient Safety
Practices-http://www.jcipatientsafety.org/24725/
----Consumers Union articles about hospitals
----
External Link http://www.consumersunion.org/campaigns/stophospitalinfections/learn.html
----State-by-State Adverse Event and Mortality Reporting Specifics,
Consumers Union
----Article---External Link: Is
hospital quality of care data available in your state?
Compare Nursing Homes in your area, with other
nursing homes in regards to
violations and complaints. It also
contains key data as to the staffing and number
of residents in the home you are looking
at. External Link www.medicare.gov
,
put in “Nursing
Home Compare" in the Search Box, click Search, study the
various options
on the pages.
New
Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating --16,000 U.S. homes are
rated
http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/Include/DataSection/Questions/SearchCriteriaNEW.asp
Nursing Homes are much,
much cheaper in some countries that you could go to.
If you cannot
afford it here you can afford it there. Check Costa Rica, for example,
with
plane fares less than $200., from some places. The temperature varies
from
57 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit, in San
Jose.
-Medical Tourism History and another
Chart compares costs in USA, Europe, Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil,-Colombia, Costa
Rica, India, Mexico, Philippines
-------Exterior Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#History
United
States Accredited Doctors:----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-=Books in Your Library about U.S. and Some
Foreign Doctors
-----“The Official ABMS Directory of
Board Certified Medical Specialists” (4 Volumes)
-----organized by Specialty and State, and includes some
foreign doctors. (super-
-----specialties are also listed)
-----“Guide to Top Doctors”, Center for
Study of Services, Consumer, (15,000 listed.)
---"Top Doctors" (It also lists some top U.S.
Hospitals.)
…-Federation of State Medical Board Information on
Licensed Practitioners in all states
-----External Link: http://www.fsmb.org, click Member Services,
click Directory of State
-----Medical Boards, click link of
any particular state.
-…Board certified U.S.
and Foreign Specialists certified in U.S.-
-----External Link: -…http://www.abms.org/. Physician certification in 24 medical
-----specialty boards, in the United
States. (super-specialties are also
listed)
-
-Patients
ratings their own doctors (And Yours?)
External
Link www.DoctorScorecard.com
--United States Yellow
Pages-External Link: http://www.yellow.com/-
ETo further check
the background of your doctor put in the words “doctor
check
-----background”
in your search
engine. A typical company that does this for about
-----$20.00 is: (Example) External
Links: http://www.mdnationwide.org/doctorscredentials.php-
-----Sample Doctor's Background
Report: http://www.mdnationwide.org/sample-docreport.php-
--Contact
Dental Schools for prices: (students less costly, but Professors
usually
-----equal cost of Private Doctors) -External Link: -http://www.dentalschools.com/
--Contact Medicaid for free medical service. (U. S.
Citizens)
…-Contact Medicare 1-800-Medicare (U.S. Citizens)-External
Link: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/-
--“Minute Clinics”
are opening in some Target and other Stores where medical
-----costs are about half what physician charge in the
U. S. You are treated by nurse
-----practitioners, and physician assistants 7 days a week.
-----External Links:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hnf/hnf_5019.htm
-----------------------------http://www.minuteclinic.com/
Argentina Doctors:---------------------------------------------------------
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
-quality
hospitals. Look in-the embassy in the country of your
interest. Example, -http://usembassy.state.gov/, click city of you interest, Example:
"Argentina: Buenos Aires" click "U. S. Citizens", click "Living in Argentina",
click-"Medical Care & Doctors". click on click here in
"Medical Care in Argentina " to find the list. Major credit
card companies also can-provide the
names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad.
Medical insurance carriers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding doctors in foreign
countries.
Argentina
Hospitals
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
---If you put a copy of each hospitals
address in your computers internet-search-engine it usually will
---give you that
hospital's web site. (If available at that time)
Brazil Doctors:----------------------------------------------------------
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
quality
hospitals. Look in-the embassy in the country of your
interest. Example, -http://usembassy.state.gov/, click city of you interest, click "U. S.
Citizen Services", click "Other-services",
click-"List of Doctors/Hospitals" Major credit
card companies also can-provide the
names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad.
Medical insurance carriers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding doctors in foreign countries.
-----Brazil Embassy External
Link-List
of Doctors/Hospitals
----http://brasilia.usembassy.gov/index.php?action=materia&id=957&submenu=8&itemmenu=58
--US Department of
State. External Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
Brazil
(JCI) Accredited Hospitals
--Amil Total
Care-Barra da
Tijuca ,Rio de Janeiro,-- Amil Total
Care-Berrini, San
PauloAmil Total
Care-Botafogo,
Hospital Copa D'OR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil--Rio de Janeiro,Hospital de
Traumato-Ortopedia,-- Rio de
Janeiro,
Hospital do Cancer
lll- INCa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil--Hospital do Cancer lV-INCa, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Hospital do Coracao, Sao Paulo,--
Hospital Israelita Albert
Einstein,-- Sao Paulo,-- Hospital Moinhos de
Vento,
--Porto Alegre, Hospital Samaritano, Sao Paulo --Hospital Sirio Libanes-Sociedade Beneficente
de Senhoras,
San Paulo, Brazil-- Instituto Estadual de
Hematologia-Hemorio, Rio de Janeiro --Pronep, Rio Janeiro --
-- Pronep, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo--Sociedade Hospital Samaritano , San
Paulo, Brazil
--If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
China
Hospitals Accredited by (JCI):
----Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, Beijing, PR China, Clifford Hospital,
----Guangzhou,
Guangdong Province, PR
China, Sir Run Run Shaw
Hospital,
Zhejiang,
----China P.R., Hong Kong Adventist
Hospital, Hong Kong, SAR, China,
-----Tsuen Wan Adventist
Hospital, Hong
Kong, SAR,
China.
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----
will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
--U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your
interest, example:
http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click city
of your interest, "Click U.S. Citizen
Services", click-"Lining
& Traveing
in China". Major credit
card companies also can
provide the names-to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. Medical insurance
carriers such as
Blue-Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding doctors
in
foreign countries.
- US Department
of State. External Link:
Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
Costa Rica Hospitals-- (No Visa is
required for U.S.A. citizens, and round trip cost $278.& up).
In Cities
rooms can be rented ,monthly, for as low as $250.00. The yearly temperature
varies from 57 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit in San
Jose.
Hospitals with (JCI)
certification-
Hospital CIMA, San Jose, Costa
Rica-- Hospital
Clinica Biblica, San Jose, Costa Rica
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
--will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors
and-quality
hospitals. Look in-the embassy in the country of your
interest. Example,-http://usembassy.state.gov/, click city of your interest, click "U.
S. Citizen Services", click "Living in Costa Rica",
click-"Medical Practitioners List.".Major
credit
card companies also can-provide the
names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad. Medical insurance carriers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful-in finding doctors in foreign countries.
----External
Link http://sanjose.usembassy.gov/medical.html
- US Department
of State. External Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
-- From Department
of State website External Link: Top 10 Tips
for Travelers
---To check
licenses of Medical Professionals in Costa Rica use these key words:
------Physicians and Surgeons-- Colegio
de Medicos y Cirujanos
------Orthodontists--La Academia
Costarricense de Ortodoncia
------Psychologists--Colegio Profesional
de Psicologos de Costa Rica
------Dental surgeons--Colegio de
Cirujanos Dentistas Costa Rica
_ Article from
Costa Rica Daily News, English Language news, about Clinica
Biblica Hospital,
--the first to apply for JCI accreditation, in the
region---Inside Costa Rica - Daily
Online News
---Clinica Biblica
Hospital--www.clinicabiblica.com
• info@clinicabiblica.com
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
--will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Costa Rica
Yellow Pages External
Link
http://www.yellow.com/188.html
- White Pages for Costa Rica. In
Spanish External
Link.-http://www.numberway.com/go/682
World Telephone
Directory-External Link:
www.numberway.com/-
…Maps-External Link: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/
Information about living costs,
weather, culture, and etc. in Costa Rica
- External
Link http://www.therealcostarica.com/
---Cities Year round climate is
indicated External Link
http://www.worldclimate.com/
---For Health and
Safety issues see section 1. on this site and read the other sections that
---could
provide some
usefull information before you
decide to travel.
Cuba
-----------------------------------------------------------------
---List
of Hospitals in Cuba External Link
http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/hospitals.php?country=Cuba
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
---will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
---US Department of
State. External
Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
-----U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors ---and quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your
interest. Major credit card ---companies also
can-provide the
names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad.
---Medical
insurance carriers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful
---in finding doctors
in foreign countries.
Hong Kong Accredited Hospitals by
Trent: Trent Accreditation list for Hong
Kong
-- External
Link -Trent
Accreditation Scheme -
--Hospital Accredited are: Canossa Hospital, Evangel Hospital, Hong Kong Adventist
Hospital,
--Hong Kong Baptist
Hospital,Hong Kong Central Hospital, Hong Kong Sanatorium and
Hospital,
--Matilda International
Hospital, Precious
Blood Hospital, St.
Paul’s Hospital,
--Tsuen Wan Adventist
Hospital, Union
Hospital. --
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
--U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors
and quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example,-http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
"Hong Kong and Macau", click "U.S.
Citizen Services," click "Medical Providers
in Hong Kong and Macau". Major credit card
companies also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality hospitals
abroad. Medical insurance
carriers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding doctors in
foreign countries.
--
-…US Department of State.--External Link: Lists of
Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Hungarian Hospitals
:
..
…Hospitals-External Link:
http://budapest.usembassy.gov/uploads/images/XcR1vk5KUNKpF3aHwUfnWg/Hospital.pdf …
…US Department of
State.--External
Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals
Abroad
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ ,
click Hungary: Budapest, click "Americal
Citizen Services," --click "Services &
Resources", click "Medical Resources". Major credit card companies
--also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. Medical
--insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding
--doctors in foreign
countries.
-- -External Link:
http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/hungary-surgery -…
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Hungarian Doctors : .
…US Department of State. External Link:
Lists of Doctors/Hospitals
Abroad
--
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ ,
click Hungary: Budapest, click "Americal
Citizen Services," --click "Services &
Resources", click "Medical Resources". Major credit card companies
--also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. Medical
--insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding
--doctors in foreign
countries.
-- -External Links:
http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/hungary-surgery -…
--
--------------- http://budapest.usembassy.gov/uploads/images/_VEr5eW6BO8t06NVgIfhFw/Doctors.pdf -------
--.--
-.
-------------------
-----------------
To find dental web sites put in the
words “Sopron dentist Hungary” in your search
---engine.
…CNN Article “Tooth tourism in
the new Europe”
External Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/22/european.quest.teeth/
………-……………………..
…Yellow
Pages-External
Link: http://www.magyartelekom.hu/main.vm
…Yellow
pages (Arany oldalak) in Hungarian-External Link: http://www.telefonkonyv.t-com.hu/tk
India (JCI) Accredited Hospitals:
--Bangalore, India
External Link Apollo Hospitals
--Chennai, India External Link
Apollo Hospital, Chennai
--Chandigarh, India External Link Grewal
Eye Institute
--Hyderabad, India External Link-http://www.apollohospitals.com/Hyderabad.asp
--Mumbai,
India –External Link-Asian Heart Institute
--Mohali, India--External
Link-Fortis
Hospital
--New Delhi,
India--Exterior
Link
-Indraprastha
Apollo Hospital
--Punjab, India--External Link-
Satguru Partap Singh Apollo
Hospital
--Mumbai,
India-External Link-Shroff Eye
Hospital
--Mumbai, India-External Link-Wockhardt Hospital,
Mumbai
--Mumbai, India-External
Link- http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/general/pressclipings2.asp#pioneer
--Mumbai, India-External
Link---http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/general/hip_resurf.asp
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
--
Manipal
Hospital gets NABL Accreditation
Exterior
Link http://www.manipalhospital.org/content/view/114/108/
--- Manipal Hospital (Bangalore) --This hospital in India is an ISO 9000:2000
certified research hospital.
--Escorts Heart Institute
and Research Center in Delhi, India
performs
--nearly 15,000 heart operations every year, and the
post-surgery mortality rate is
--only 0.8 percent, which is less
than half of most major
hospitals in the United States.
-- Hospital is
BSI certified. Exterior Links--
---http://www.ehirc.com/individuals/howtoreach_hospital.htm
--Kalra Hospital
(New Delhi, India, This modern hospital is ISO 9001 certified and lists
--the-U.S.Embassy in India as a client.--Exterior
Link http://www.kalrahospital.net
--Prices at
Indian Hospitals
------External Link--http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/landing.asp?gclid=CMST4-6Z9YwCFR2zgAodSHEYCw-
-…US Department of State. External
Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Indian Accredited
Doctors:-------------------------------------------------------
-----India
yellow pages External link http://yellowpages.sulekha.com/
----India Yellow
Pages-External Link: www.yellowpages.co.in ……..
-----Yellow Pages-External Link:
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng/asia/in-
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
state & city of your interest, click "U. S.
Citizen Services," --click "Services &
Resources", click "Medical Resources". Major credit card companies
--also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. Medical
--insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in
--finding doctors in foreign
countries.
--External Link: http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/medical_information2.html
--your Search engine results, then on the Medical
Council of India website,
click
IMR ---Database
--Medical Professors in
India-http://www.mciindia.org/ ,
click Medical Council of India: Home Page
,
----on your Search
engine results,-then on
the Medical
Council of India website,
click Faculty
Database.
--Dentists and Dental Professors in
India: External Link http://www.dciindia.org/index.htm on your search --engine
results click, Welcome to Dental Council of
India-,click
Miscellaneous,- -click,
---Teaching Staff
List.as
List below to check Doctors-External
Link: http://www.indmedica.com/ (Click-on Doctors,
put in the search box one of the following to
locate
your wanted
specialists:
Acupuncture……………………………Hospital Administration… Pathology
Anaesthesia.
………………………….
Immunology………………..Pharmacology
Anatomy.
………………………………Internal
Medicine………….Physiotherapy
Ayurveda……………………………….Medical
Informatics……..…Physiology
Biochemistry…………………………...Medical
Students…………….Plastic
Surgery
Biomedical
Eng…………………………Microbiology………………..Psychiatry
Cardiology………………………………Nephrology…………………..Pulmonary Medicine.
Community
Medicine………………….Neurology…………………...Radiology
Cytology…………………………………Neurosurgery……………...Radiotherapy
Dental……………………………………Nursing……………………...Rheumatology
DermatologyObs
& Gynaecology….Occupational Health……....Surgery
Endocrinology………………………….Ophthalmology…………….Teacher's
Training
Forensic
Medicine & Toxicology……Optometry………………….Transfusion Medicine
Gastro-Enterology……………………Orthopedics…………………Urology
Hepatology……………………………..Otorhinolaryngology
Homeopathy……………………………Paediatrics……………..
…List of Indian dentist-External Link:
http://www.bitein.com/dreposlist.htm
…International Society of
Aesthetic Plastic External Link: http://www.isaps.org to
find a Country’s-
-- member Click: The Society, Click:
Members by Country, Click Alphabetical
Order, Click
---country of your interest.
…US Department of State.-External Link:
Lists of
Doctors/Hospitals Abroad…
---Physicians/Hospitals Mumbai-External
Link: http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/med_res.html-.
Mexican Hospitals Accredited by
(JCI):
Mexican Hospitals with (JCI)
Certification
The American
British Cowdray Medical Center IAP- Observatorio Campus, Mexico City,
Mexico
The American British
Cowdray Medical Center IAP- Santa Fe Campus, Mexico City,
Mexico
-- Christus Muguerza Alta Especialidad
, Monterrey,
Mexico
Clinica Cumbres
Chihuahua , Chihuahua, Mexico
Hospital San
Jose Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico
Hospital Y
Clinica OCA, S.A. de C.V. ,Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
…US Department of State. External Link:
Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
State & City of your interest, click U. S.
Citizen Services, --click "Medical
Emergencies", click "List of medical facilities". Major credit card
--companies also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. --Medical-insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful
--in finding doctors in
foreign countries.
---REFERENCE:
“Health and Safety Travel Guide to Mexico” by Robert H Page,
MD
----and --Curtis P. Page, --MD: Mexico – Health, best English
speaking doctors
----and
hospitals in “Yucatan, Healthy Traveler’s -Handbook”, (same
authors)
----about
doctors, and hospitals, etc. in
Mexico. Both Free at your library, or
----used for
about $12.97 at
www.Amazon.com
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
----usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Mexican Accredited Doctors:----------------------------------------------------
…Mexican
Physicians List
Doctors in Mexico City U.S.
Embassy Ext. Link http://mexico.usembassy.gov/eng/eacs_doctors.html
Doctors and Hospitals in
Mexico External Link from Canada http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/mexico-mexique/emerge-urgence/med.aspx
Doctors
List External Link from U. K.
http://ukinmexico.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/if-you-need-doctor
…US Department of
State-External Link: Lists of
Doctors/Hospitals
Abroad
-
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
State & City of your interest, click U. S.
Citizen Services, --click "Medical
Emergencies", click "List of physicians and dentists". Major credit card
--companies also can provide the
names to choose doctors
and quality
hospitals abroad. --Medical-insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful
--in finding doctors in
foreign countries. -ExternalLink----http://ciudadjuarez.usconsulate.gov/. http://ciudadjuarez.usconsulate.gov/
--REFERENCE: “Health and
Safety Travel Guide to Mexico” by Robert H Page, MD
---and Curtis P Page, MD: Mexico –
Health, best English speaking doctors and
---hospitals in “Yucatan,
Healthy Traveler’s Handbook”, (same authors) about
---doctors, and hospitals, etc. in
Mexico. Both Free at your library, or used for
---$12.97 at http://amazon.com/
--To find dental web
sites put the words “Tijuana, Mexico” in your search engine.
---But, medical fees in the heavily
traveled areas, like Tijuana, are at least 100
---percent higher than in the rest of the
country. So consider finding your medical
---and dental services in less traveled
area.
--Mexico
Internet Phone listings
……-External Link: http://www.numberway.com/phone-numbers/9024/ --- (Yellow Pages)---
----(Internet Phone
listings are much less detailed compared to the Telephone
Books)
----Mexican Phone book are available,
usually free, but call the local town telephone
----company from where you want to get a
book. Phone Co. in Tijuana (Telnor www.
----telnor.com) from U. S. call 011 52
664 633 2001 Sales Phone Co. in Ciudad Juarez
----(from U. S. call 015 52 656 627
1311), Exterior Link
www.telmex.com.mx/
jj
----To order phone
books External Link
www.mexicophonebooks.com
--Phone books in
Mexico-External Link: www.mexicophonebooks.com/list.html. Here
---you will find descriptions of all the
phone books published in Mexico. Most directories
---are a combination of yellow pages
followed by the residential white pages. All books
---are published in Spanish although some
directories, such as the Tijuana phone book,
---have important information in the
front of the book in English. This information covers
---the leading hospitals,
government agencies, embassies and more. The index is in
both
---Spanish followed
by an English section. In the yellow pages section, the headings
are
---in both Spanish
and English although the business information is in Spanish.
Mexico,
---City
Guadalajara and Monterrey now
publish a separate medical business
---directory.
…Travel to Mexico:
……Ciudad Juarez via El Paso Airport,
($600. cheaper) Airport phone 915 780 4749.
…---El Paso Int.
Airport-: http://www.worldairportguide.co.uk/airports/elp/elp.asp#CountryCode-
…To Juarez through El Paso from
Airport approximate costs: Bus $7., Shuttle carload
---$35.,
Taxi carload-$45
--Flying to Tijuana via San Diego is
($600 cheaper), From San Diego Int. Airport to S
--Ysidro, on the border of Tijuana,
about: By Trolley $2.50, By shuttle about $35, By
- Taxi about $55. Then you need to walk
or bike across the border. Riding a $5.00
--rented Bicycle is fastest as you avoid
the long lines. San Diego Int. Airport
----External
Link: http://www.san.org/
Phillippines
Hospitals Accredited by (JCI)
---- Quezon
City, St. Luke's Medical Center
---- Pasig
City, http://www.themedicalcity.com/
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
----usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors
and quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, click
http://usembassy.state.gov/ State & City of your
interest, "Consular and Visa
--Services", click "American
Citizen Services",
click
"Hospitals/Doctors". --Major credit card
companies also
can provide
the names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad. Medical-insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield
websites can also be useful in finding doctors in
foreign-countries.
--A list of licensed government and
private hospitals and other health facilities in the Philippines,
consult the Philippine Online Health
Directory or the
Department of Health's Hospital List. If these
links don't work go to the Phillipine website
at http://usembassy.state.gov/
, and follow
to
--the same
info.
--US Department of State. External
Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
--- usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
Singapore Accredited Hospitals
by (JCI):
--
Alexandra
Hospital, Changi General
Hospital,
Institute of
MentalHealth/Woodbridge
Hospital,
Johns Hopkins Singapore
International (http://www.imc.jhmi.edu/)
KK Women's and Children's
Hospital,National Healthcare Group
Polyclinics
National Heart Centre of Singapore,
National Skin
Centre
-- National University
Hospital , Parkway Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd. East
shore Hospital
Parkway
Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd-Gleneagles Hospital
- Parkway Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd, Mount
Elizabeth Hospital Singapore
Singapore
General Hospital , Tan Tock Seng
Hospital --
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
---usually-will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.) --
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link:
http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
----usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.) --
U.S. and other
embassies and consulates-abroad
maintain lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
Singapore, click "U. S. Citizens Services", telephone --the Singapore Imbassy. Major credit-card companies also can provide the names to --choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad. Medical-insurance carriers such as --Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be
useful-in finding doctors in --foreign-countries.
--
----US Department of State. External
Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
Thailand (JCI) Accredited
Hospitals: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---Bangkok, Thailand--External
Link--Bangkok Hospital Medical
Center
- -Bangkok, Thailand--External
Link--Bumrungrad
International
Bangkok,Thailand--External Link-- Samitivej Srinakari
Hospital
--Bangkok, Thailand--External
Link--Samitivej Sukhumvit
Hospital
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
---usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
…US Department of State. External Link:
Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
---usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
….U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors
and quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, -http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
State & City of your
interest, click "American
Citizen
Services",or
Telephone the Embassy,
click. Major credit card
companies also can provide
the names to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad. Medical-insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding
doctors in
foreign-countries. .
.
-Thailand
Doctors: -----------------------------------------------------------------
…US Department
of State. External
Link: Lists of
Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
….U.S. and other embassies and
consulates
abroad maintain lists to choose doctors
and
quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, -http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
State & City of your
interest, click "U. S.
Citizen
Services",or
Telephone the Embassy. Major credit card
companies also can provide
the names to choose doctors-and quality hospitals abroad. Medical-insurance carriers
such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be useful in finding
doctors in
foreign-countries.
…Yellow
Pages-External Link: Z Directory
…Yellow
Pages-External Link: Thailand Yellow
Pages--…To
call Thailand, dial your
--international
access code (011 in North America, 00 in most other countries), the
---country code 66 then the customer’s 8 digit number
(omit the initial 0, if one is shown)
Turkey Accredited
Hospitals
by
(JCI)---------------------------------------------------------
---Bakirkoy-Istanbul,
Turkey--External Link--Acibadem Bakirkoy
Hospital
Bursa, Turkey- External
Link-Acibadem Bursa
Hospital
Kadikoy-Istanbul, Turkey-External
Link-Acibadem Kadikoy
Hospital
Kocaeli-Izmit, Turkey-External
Link-Acibadem Kocaeli
Hospital
-- Kozyatagi-Istanbul, Turkey-External
Link-Acibadem Kozyatagi
Hospital
Istanbul, Turkey,-External
Link-Alman Hastanesi/Deutsches
Krankenhaus
Kocaeli, Turkey, External
Link-Anadolu Saglik Merkezi
---Ankara, Turkey--External
Link-Ankara Guven
Hospital
---Ankara, Turkey--External
Link--Bayindir
Hospital
---Sisli,stanbul,
Turkey--External Link--Caglayan Florence
Nightingale Hospital
---Ankara, Turkey--External Link--Mesa Hastanesi
Istanbul,
Turkey-External Link-Ozel
Medicana Hospital Camilca
Istanbul, Turkey-External
Link-Ozel Medicana Hospitals
Bahcelievler
---Ankara, Turkey- External
Link, Turkish Red Crescent Society Middle Anatolia Regional
Blood
Center
Bursa,
Turkey-External Link, Uludag Universitesi Saglik
Kuruluslan
---Istanbul, Turkey--External Link--Vehbi Koc Foundation
American Hospital
Istanbul,
Turkey-External Link-Yeditepe
University Hospital
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
----will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
…If you put a copy of each hospital's address
in your computer's-internet-search-engine it usually
…will give you that hospital's web site. (If
available at that time.)
…US Department of State. External Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
U.S. and other embassies and consulates abroad maintain
lists to choose doctors and
--quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example, --http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
"Turkey: Istanbul", click "U. S. Citizen Services",
--click "Medical
Information". Major credit card companies also can provide the names
- to choose doctors and quality hospitals abroad. Medical-insurance carriers such as --Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites can also be
useful in finding doctors-in --foreign-countries.
…
----Ilkeston Hospital, Ilkeston—St Oswald’s Hospital,
Ashbourne,--Ripley Hospital, Ripley
-----Babington Hospital, Belper—Heanor and District Memorial Hospital,
Heanor—
-----Rutland Memorial Hospital, Oakham—Market Harborough/St. Luke’ Hospital,
Market Harborough
-----East Cleveland,
Brotton—Mansfield Community Hospital,
Mansfield
-----Bolsover/Clay Cross Hospital, Chesterfield—Buxton & Cavendish Hospital,
Buxton
-----St. Mary’s War Memorial Hospital, Melton Mowbray—Coalville Community Hospital,
-----Coalville—Ashby & District
Hospital, Ashby De La Zouch—Field Palmer Hospital,
Lutterworth
-----Ashfield Community
Hospital, Kirbyin
Ashfield—Whitworth/Newholme Hospital,
-----Matlock/Bakewell—Hinckley&
District/Hinckley Sunnyside Hospitla,
Hinckley
-----Loughborough Hospital, Loughborough—Skegness Hospital,
Skegness
-----Johnson and Welland Hospitals,
Spalding
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
----usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
…Hospitals
Worldwide:
(12,000 + hospitals
listed)
…-External Link: http://www.hospitalsworldwide.com/index.php?
--
If you put a copy of each hospital's address in
your computer's-internet-search-engine it
---- usually will give you that hospital's web site.(If available at
that time.)
---US Department of State.
External Link: Lists of Doctors/Hospitals Abroad
---.U.S. and other embassies and consulates abroad maintain
lists to choose doctors and -----quality hospitals. Look in the embassy in the area of your interest.
Example for U. K. ---- http://usembassy.state.gov/ , click
"United Kingdon: London, click "American
Citizens Services", click
"Special Consular Services",
click.,"medical
practioners"
…-.
Major credit card
companies also can provide the names to
choose doctors quality … …---hospitals..abroad. Medical-insurance carriers.such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield websites
…-- can
also
be
useful in finding
doctors in-foreign-countries.
…
5.
Determine best time of year to go: which depends on airline fares and
weather
at
various times. (Some areas are flooded at certain times of the
year).
…World Climate-External Link:
http://www.worldclimate.com/
Travel costs are cheaper seasonally.
…-Download "google earth free" for
aerial views of where you want to go
…--http://earth.google.com/
…Maps-External Link:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/
6. Determine where to stay in the country
of your choice. You
can
find adequate
----places to
stay, in most countries, for $15.00 dollars a night. The doctor
or
----hospital you
are going too may refer you to such places, which are near
----them. If you
go up-and-down the streets, in India, you
will find Hotels as
----low $3. per night.
The bathroom is a hole in the floor at the end of the
----hall with a garden
hose and your finger to wash yourself with.
7. Get a passport and visa for medical travel, if needed,
to the country of
your
----choice, it
can
take
months.-You need
a Passport and a Visa to enter or exit most countries
----and
to get a Visa
you-must first
get a Passport. Some companies claim they can get you
a
----Passport, at an-additional
charge, in one day, but |
