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jss @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
OK, yeah, it’s been on magazine covers, featured on 60 Minutes.
But when Robin Cook uses medical tourism as the backdrop in his new medical thriller, “Foreign Bodies,” … well, who keeps up with medical trends more than has Dr. Cook?
I blogged this at The Bridge, in more detail, here.
I’d love to swap an autographed copy [...]
jss @ June 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The American Medical Association has released guidelines for medical travel and tourism. This is pretty big news, in the part of the world that concerns itself with the globalization of medical care and services.
I’ve already blogged about this at The Bridge, where I have the nine principles as stated by the AMA.
The principles had not [...]
jss @ March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For the record, I’ve never talked to anyone from this website that’s quoting me. (Update 3/25: The article is no longer there … but I’ll leave this post alone otherwise.)
It’s a pretty harmless quote. I might have said it to someone. It might even be directly from Beauty from Afar.
They don’t say anything about why [...]
jss @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Prisma Dental Blog is up and running. It’s a site that I think, over time, will do a lot to inform people who need major dental work about the option of having it done in Costa Rica. I do not often get directly involved with recommending specific overseas medical facilities but I make an [...]
jss @ February 14, 2008 # One Comment
Medical travel continues to garner considerable media coverage. News 14 Carolina did this story yesterday; I post it in part because I’m included in the interview. They’ve got the before-and-after shots of my teeth in there as well, from 2004.
jss @ January 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Globe and Mail, the newspaper of record in Canada with a weekly circulation of something like two million, leads their travel section today with a big article on medical tourism. Dave McGinn does a nice job looking at the phenomenon from the Canadian perspective, and I’m not just saying so because he interviewed [...]
jss @ January 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Professor Milica Bookman, author of Medical Tourism in Developing Countries, has reportedly backtracked on whether Cuba is ready to step to the forefront of countries that offer low-cost, high quality medical care to international patients, after a visit to Havana.
I say “reportedly” because I haven’t talked to Milica myself, though we are email acquaintances; and [...]
jss @ January 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When Beauty from Afar first came out, I was afflicted with Amazon Sales Rank Syndrome, a phrase I apparently just coined because a Google search for it finds nothing, nada. ASRS sufferers have mood swings linked to the mysterious ups and downs of how their book is doing according to Amazon, as measured by Sales [...]
jss @ January 3, 2008 # One Comment
CNN.com did a nice piece today on traveling outside the U.S. for cosmetic surgery; I knew it was coming because the writer, Neil Schlecht, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. I’m quoted briefly in the story, as an expert, and my book gets mentioned.
Neil apologized a little for the brevity but we both know [...]
jss @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
When you spend a lot of time hanging out with people in the so-called “medical tourism industry,” as I have over the last few years, it is sometimes convenient and perhaps too easy to talk about national care systems and patients in aggregate … business-plan, big-picture stuff.
I like to be reminded regularly (email is [...]
