#medical-tourism

#medical-tourism

"The doctor who called me from Colombia just called me and told me my wife had just passed away," Michael told the outlet.

Obviously I'm going to tell everyone as they come in, Just so you know, this is not how I look,' says the 30-year-old real estate agent from south Florida. How she looks is, well, a little startling her face swollen and preternaturally lifted, as though held together by industrial-grade tape. Her new and she's keen to stress, temporary look is the result of six cosmetic procedures, including an endoscopic mid-facelift, performed by a doctor in Istanbul, Turkey, last month.

Tombstone tours up +428%, drawing visitors to world-famous cemeteries Hair transplant vacations up +267%, often packaged with flights, hotels and surgery Plastic surgery trips up +145%, with hotspots in South Korea, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico and India Gambling cruises up +136%, offering floating casinos for travelers from places with strict land-based laws Storm-chasing tours up +114% for hurricanes and +21% for tornadoes

The first step involved cutting his leg in half to allow a device to be implanted to separate the two ends of the sawn off bone. It leaves a space for new bone growth to take place, which is also monitored through several surgeries. Of the ordeal, he told the outlet: 'Sometimes the nerve pain wrecks me'. But he endured it because he is proud of being a self-starter, having a 'self made' tattoo on his knuckles.

The state of health care in Nigeria is deeply concerning. The biggest problem is infrastructure. There are no drugs and functional medical equipment.

For business professionals, medical decisions don't happen in a vacuum. Time away from the company, client load, and daily responsibilities all influence the choice to seek treatment abroad.