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	<title>Discovering Medical Tourism</title>
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		<title>My partner got LASIKED in Singapore!! (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serge Fabre, my dear business partner, was now sure of his decision: it was LASIK at Excellence. Bye, bye glasses, aurevoir les lunettes, adios gaffas.
One morning he went to have a preliminary check up. The verdict came within two days: his right eye needed more correction than the left, he was a little bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My partner got LASIKED in Singapore!! (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talk, talk, talk about medical tourism: but many people can object me, &#8220;till you never tried it, you never know what it&#8217;s all about&#8221;
My partner Serge Fabre, though in his late 50s is an indiana Jones of the modern ages when it comes to experiencing his business. As a tourism expert he travelled to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/my-partner-got-lasiked-in-singapore-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Medical tourism in Oriental countries: another Medical philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medical tourism is often depicted as an outsourcing process: you go elsewhere to get cheaper prices, as a shoe manufacturer can transfer its manufacturing activities from Italy to Bangladesh.
Still, this outsourcing process is extremely different as, conversely to a classical industry, you don t keep the same machine, namely the doctor. And beyond the differences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/medical-tourism-in-oriental-countries-another-medical-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>MediSPA? Who&#8217;s that?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I visited a string of interesting spa in South East Asia:

Tria integrative Wellness,
Amezcua Wellness Centre, 
San Carlos.

These spa are classified under the medical spa category. The concept of a medical spa consists in linking pampering to health benefits: you go to a medical spa to feel better under a precise Medical protocol. If you figure that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/medispa-whos-that/</link>
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		<title>Mixing Past and Future: The New Traditional Chinese medecine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous two articles, I have been talking about the possibility for Indian Hospital  to utilize Ayurveda in their healing and medical offers to gain a differentiating asset. Yet there are two hollistic medical system in Asia: ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine that I ll call TCM to save some time.
Traditional Medicine is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/mixing-past-and-future-the-new-traditional-chinese-medecine/</link>
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		<title>Indian Medicine: OPERATED IN INDIA (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As stated in the previous article, Indian medicine has a great asset: its past. In fact, Ayurveda, the hollistic medicine principle derived from centuries of medical tradition, is an original medicine with a certain efficiency that can be built into a decisive competitive factor by Indian hospitals!
Previously, we talked about preventive care and diagnosis according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/indian-medicine-operated-in-india-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Indian Medicine: connecting past and future (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India has established itself as a prominent medical hub thanks to an important number of high tech medical facilityies and many seasoned cardiologists willing to treat international patients.
Still, as anylayman from Europe, for me India looks like a new country on the medical map trying to surf on the BPO (business process outsourcing) tidal wave.
HOW WRONG [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/indian-medicine-connecting-past-and-future-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Working hands in hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received two mails from European Entrepreneurs (one Deutch, one English) that are willing to open a medical tourism agency that were both wildly complaining about the lack of support of Asian Hospitals. What they were pointing out was the fact that hospitals were not willing to invest in their operations while these medical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/working-hands-in-hands/</link>
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		<title>New Features: the guide to alternative medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





I have been lately focusing pretty much on alternative medicine (acupuncture, ayurveda etc etc) as I have always considered that they were the real center of the concept called &#8216;medical tourism&#8217;. So I decided to lay the emphasis on alternative medecine by coming out with a small guide about
CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) from herbal therapy, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/new-features-the-guide-to-altgernative-medicine/</link>
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		<title>HELP! I need a Doctooor. HELP! Not just any doctooor&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main problem with medical tourism is the natural feel of isolation that stems from it. By deciding to go abroad, a patient will fill his suitcase with medical reports and cross his fingers to get the right diagnosis. In fact, diagnosis is the tumbling rock of medical travel as people fears to be misled, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAKE UP!!!!! Your Medical travel alarm clock is ringing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I made my little trip through some websites to get news about the medical tourism industry and noticed that the Health Business Blog by David Williams was talking a paper called Medical Tourism: Implications for Participants in the US Health Care System backed by his two companies (MedPharma Partners LLC, a health care and life sciences consulting firm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/wake-up-your-medical-travel-alarm-clock-is-ringing/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs! Relax! YOGA!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday, i have the chance of having at least 2 to 3 mails from the many entrepreneurs willing to make the jump towards medical tourism. We discuss several issues: what are the margins like, is the service fee enough to cover costs etc etc. At the end of the day I see many people with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/entrepreneurs-relax-yoga/</link>
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		<title>Alternative medecine and Post operative recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alternative medecine (also called complementary medecine) are all the techniques that helps treating a specific health condition. Even though some are still lacking exposure many of us have heard about acupuncture, yoga, aromatherapy. In France, thalasso therapy started not as a relaxation opportunity for Paris city dwellers but more like an opportunity to treat several health conditions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.discovering-medical-tourism.com/alternative-medecine-and-post-operative-recovery/</link>
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		<title>What to treat? With Whom? Please a hand!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love web 2.0! I have quickly reviewed Medtrotter, and to be honest I was extremy skeptical about patients ranking their surgeon&#8230;. Yet, let s now just consider a health condition such as asthma. You are living in Charlotte, north Carolina and you are looking for some information: you got it, through a new online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in a Pond: global medical tourism actors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, as always, I m ready for a rant. Why? Because I don t get certain points in medical tourism, for instance the notion of medical care offering. Two events happened in the last few days:

Hi! I am a medical tourism product on a website: I am slightly yellow and red, can you please find [...]]]></description>
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