Medical Tourist or International Patient…What Am I?

March 26, 2014

(IMTJ) – An article in a German newspaper on medical tourism once again brings up the biggest problem on claimed medical tourism figures. You cannot blame non-specialist journalists for helping to spread the disease of over claimed numbers that is rife. When a journalist  asks a country “How many medical tourists do you get?” he or she may fail to appreciate that  the response “We get ‘n’ international patients a year “ is not the answer to the question.