Let Medical Tourism Solutions bring your surgeon to you.
This seems to be a difficult question in the development of the medical tourism industry, with varying standards and criteria being used by organizations and companies throughout the industry. How do you judge quality in medical tourism? What are the benchmarks that should be used? Is it accreditation? Is it affiliation with U.S. facilities? What about the number of patients going to a particular facility? While these are all good measures, which we support and believe to be part of the decision-making process, at Medical Tourism Solutions we would like to put forward another important variable which sometimes gets ignored: the specific surgeon who operates on the patient.
Multiple studies have shown that one of the biggest factors leading to a quality outcome in a surgical procedure is the experience of the surgeon performing the operation. Strangely though, many medical tourism operators and hospitals have pushed the surgeon to the background and ignored this essential variable in the decision-making process. Considering a pre-surgical consult with the surgeon is a mandatory part of the surgical process, why wouldn’t these parties want to introduce the surgeon to the patient up front in the process? Medical Tourism Solutions believes that the most important element of this equation is the personal relationship between the surgeon and the patient. As such, we require all of our patients to speak with their surgeon of choice before even boarding a plane.
So, why would a company not want to call attention to their surgeons? We’re not sure. But, our guess is that by doing so they might diminish the need for them to be part of the medical tourism equation. Is this the case with all companies? Obviously not. There are many ethical and quality medical tourism companies out there. But, with the rapid growth in this industry, it is true that some less than reputable companies are damaging the reputation of medical tourism and the industry as a whole.
As a result, organizations such as the American Medical Assocation (AMA) have come out with guidelines on best practices within the industry. One of the key features of this type of standards is the introduction of transparency to the interaction between facilitator and patient. This is the goal of our emphasis on the surgeon. Introduce the patient as early as possible to the one that will be performing the medical procedure.
In advocating this practice, we hope that other companies will follow our lead and bring greater transparency to this market, thus leading to increased patient satisfaction. For more information on Medical Tourism Solutions and our philosophy, please contact us at any time.
