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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 959009" data-attributes="member: 38206">Medical tourists have cash, will travel.VANCOUVER — When Robert Stuart Smith&#039;s left knee gave out, the resident of the Vancouver bedroom community of White Rock was a busy realtor, avid golfer and occasional Scottish singer who had no time&nbsp;to wait a year or two for surgery to replace his 72-year-old joint.Rather than putting his active life on hold and adding his name to a wait list, Smith took his business abroad&nbsp;and outsourced the surgery to India.He contracted a medical tourism company based in Kelowna, B.C., to book the trip, travelled with his wife to Kerala and for $20,000 he had his knee replaced in less than a month. After the surgery, he spent two weeks&nbsp;recovering in hospital with a private nurse, then moved to a five-star hotel while his wife went sightseeing.There&#039;s a lot of public discussion of wait times as the reason people go abroad for surgery, but from our research&nbsp;we know the things prompting Canadians to go abroad are much more diverse.&quot;<a href="http://www.canada.com/health/Medical+tourists+have+cash+will+travel/6427473/story.html" target="_blank">Medical tourists have cash, will travel</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 959009, member: 38206"] [B]Medical tourists have cash, will travel. VANCOUVER — When Robert Stuart Smith's left knee gave out, the resident of the Vancouver bedroom community of White Rock was a busy realtor, avid golfer and occasional Scottish singer who had no time to wait a year or two for surgery to replace his 72-year-old joint. Rather than putting his active life on hold and adding his name to a wait list, Smith took his business abroad and outsourced the surgery to India. He contracted a medical tourism company based in Kelowna, B.C., to book the trip, travelled with his wife to Kerala and for $20,000 he had his knee replaced in less than a month. After the surgery, he spent two weeks recovering in hospital with a private nurse, then moved to a five-star hotel while his wife went sightseeing. There's a lot of public discussion of wait times as the reason people go abroad for surgery, but from our research we know the things prompting Canadians to go abroad are much more diverse." [url=http://www.canada.com/health/Medical+tourists+have+cash+will+travel/6427473/story.html]Medical tourists have cash, will travel[/url] [/B] [/QUOTE]

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