Need surgery? Come to Spain...
Mar 19th 2013, 10:28 am
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Need surgery? Come to Spain...
http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/03/18/...31_223228.html
Interesting article. Just surprising that the Spanish took so long to get around to this. But, same as the tourist industry, they will have strong competition from other countries.
A world-class health system, prices below the European average and temperatures above it: Spain has all the ingredients to establish itself as a leading international healthcare and medical tourism destination. But it has taken an unprecedented recession to finally prompt the country's private clinics to begin trying to attract wealthy foreign patients either willing to pay for cosmetic surgery out of their own pockets, or have medical insurance that covers treatment in other countries.
Mar 19th 2013, 11:09 am
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
This was in the news a month or so ago!
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
Mar 19th 2013, 11:31 am
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
This was in the news a month or so ago!
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
Mar 19th 2013, 3:59 pm
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
We have an American part time neighbour (he lives in Florida for most of the year) who is, this very afternoon, having a number of teeth implants in a Malaga dental practice - he scheduled the treatment during one of their visits because it is hugely cheaper than he would pay in the US. We had dinner with them last night and his wife told me she'd recently been quoted $1400 by a US dental clinic for CLEANING
Mar 19th 2013, 4:11 pm
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
We have an American part time neighbour (he lives in Florida for most of the year) who is, this very afternoon, having a number of teeth implants in a Malaga dental practice - he scheduled the treatment during one of their visits because it is hugely cheaper than he would pay in the US. We had dinner with them last night and his wife told me she'd recently been quoted $1400 by a US dental clinic for CLEANING
Mar 19th 2013, 4:24 pm
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
This was in the news a month or so ago!
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
remember this, one of many.............
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm
Apart from the possibility it may have been bodged, I wonder if there is a high degree of risk with this type of op in elderly or not so fit people ?
Mar 19th 2013, 4:29 pm
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
We have an American part time neighbour (he lives in Florida for most of the year) who is, this very afternoon, having a number of teeth implants in a Malaga dental practice - he scheduled the treatment during one of their visits because it is hugely cheaper than he would pay in the US. We had dinner with them last night and his wife told me she'd recently been quoted $1400 by a US dental clinic for CLEANING
Mine charges €36!I met an American guy at the weekend who is thinking of moving over here on a retirement visa, because he can get medical insurance for himself and his wife much more cheaply here. Apparently pensioners in the US can't get private insurance after they retire, they have to use Medicare??
Mar 19th 2013, 4:44 pm
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Re: Need surgery? Come to Spain...
Sadly, this kind of tragedy isn't unknown in private clinics anywhere, as this case illustrates:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...nise-dies.html
For the last 3 years I spent in the UK I was working for the Healthcare Commission covering the private health sector, and all "adverse events" were required to be reported to us. It surprised me to see how many there were - and, as in Mrs Hendry's case, people who suffer these kinds of complications from botched surgery end up being transferred to intensive care in the NHS.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...nise-dies.html
For the last 3 years I spent in the UK I was working for the Healthcare Commission covering the private health sector, and all "adverse events" were required to be reported to us. It surprised me to see how many there were - and, as in Mrs Hendry's case, people who suffer these kinds of complications from botched surgery end up being transferred to intensive care in the NHS.
