Would you travel overseas for a medical procedure?!

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There are many americans as well as citizens from another country travelling overseas to get a medical procedures done (anything from hip replacements to dental work or cosmetic procedures,source International Living magazine).Cost savings can range from 15% to 75%.Not to mention you can also see another country,have a vacation.Also it can help people who dont have a good insurance.Well I would do it without hesitation.Would you?

My mom goes to Turkey a couple of times a year (we're Turkish) and when she goes she often gets a few treatments/procedures done. She got laser hair removal for her full legs, underarmas and a Brazilian done for a total of $250! She did a total of 2 or 3 treatments so it only came to about $500-750 total for all that hair removal. and now she is soooo happy to be completely hair free, she can put on a skirt, bathing suit, or sleeveless shirt without every having to worry about hair removal. She also gets dental work when she's there.

As for me, the last time I went I had an accident and ended up needing surgery...I think we paid next to nothing, if anything. And the next time I go (either this year in December or next summer) I am definitely getting the same laser hair removal my mom did. I got laser on my underarms here and it cost $120/treatment whereas my mom paid $250 for a full body!!!

Anyway, there are lots of cool places you can visit in Turkey and I hope you go :)

I'd really love to go there. Hopefully soon! :)

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I work in Canada and have seen more than a handful of medical tourists wind up in hospital with post op complications. Also, dealt with patients who went on holiday and then where medi-aired home post op.

I've discovered the following:

Choose your plastic surgeon in Venezula carefully

Avoid gastric by-pass surgery in Mexico

Hips done in Poland and other former east block countries are usually good

If your bowels aren't working before you go on holiday to Central America, get it checked out, the guys down there do an OK colostomy but you'll still wind up in hospital when you come home.

I can remember one patient who cost the Canadian taxpayer well over $1MILLION fixing her "cheap" overseas procedure. The staff who cared for her all felt that she should have had to pay for her care because she just couldn't meet the criteria for the surgery here and she "deserved" to have the procedure because she could have it done on vacation!!!

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I wouldn't.

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