With TV shows like “Botched” gaining popularity, surgical horror stories are flooding the media. Medical tourism—traveling to a tourist destination for a medical procedure, such as cosmetic surgery—is getting an increasingly bad reputation due to doctors’ warnings and media coverage of travelers who return with frightening tales of their surgical experiences abroad. There’s no question—no…
Category: Medical Tourism
Medical Tourism: What’s the Real Problem with Traveling Outside the States?
While the benefits of domestic medical tourism can be numerous, traveling outside of the U.S. can prove to be a dangerous and expensive venture. More and more, we see patients returning home with horror stories of botched cosmetic procedures, costing them thousands of dollars to repair and causing unnecessary emotional turmoil. Going abroad to save money may…