I also believe that its not always practical to encourage people to seek medical tourism for chronic diseases/ conditions that require frequent follow-ups. I limit myself to surgical tourism and surgeons for a couple of reasons – the main reason being that I have extensive surgical experience and know the international standards and protocols used for surgery and surgical patients.
Instead – I want to help people find safe options. I feel that as a nurse, my job is to advocate for my patients – and while I wish everyone could stay close to home for their medical needs, that’s just not the reality for many people. I don’t work for the doctors, I work for my readers. I invested my own money (my retirement) into this project, and accept no outside funding from doctors, hospitals, companies so that readers could be assured of my impartiality. I use internationally accepted criteria and scientific tools to evaluate providers, procedures and facilities. So, I began traveling, interviewing and observing surgeries as a way to try and make sure that my patients would have legitimate and unbiased information about surgical tourism options. I believe in transparency, and have posted my credentials on the site.) *(If you have any questions about me – please visit my website, Bogota.
I just needed a way to find out who the excellent providers were, (and who wasn't so great) so that my patients would have the necessary information to make informed decisions. It sounded like a recipe for disaster to me - but I also understood why my patients were interested.Īs a healthcare provider, my job is to give unbiased and honest information to my patients - even if it means they might chose to go to other providers and make decisions that other doctors and nurses may not like. This made me exceedingly nervous about their health and well-being since none of these websites were independently reviewed, operated or unbiased, and there is very little regulation of medical tourism companies.
Several of my patients asked me about medical tourism, and were relying heavily on industry supported websites to find surgeons and medical providers.
After working with patients from all backgrounds and watching the American health care system continue to deteriorate and fail many of my neediest patients – I became interested in surgical tourism. Eckland, and I am an acute care nurse practitioner in cardiothoracic surgery.
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