Happy holidays to all. It has been a hectic month and I haven’t had time to make much progress here for a couple of weeks. Surely, I’ll do better in the New Year.
The content of today’s page, I know, worried me back in 2005-2006. Choosing patient support sites for medical tourism and putting them in a book seemed like a bit of a crapshoot. If the sites disappeared, went rogue, even became … less than useful … they’d still be in Beauty from Afar forever. And it would matter, at least to me.
Chapter 5 Page 3 | Patient Support Sites for Medical Tourism
Happily, I chose well. PSJourneys.com and ObesityHelp.com, among other web site forums for patients, have not just survived but thrived. MedRetreat remains among the leading medical travel companies.
The list would be longer if I was writing it today — but not a lot longer. There have been many attempts to establish online forums for medical travel and most of them have been shortlived.
yes i agree – trying to maintain online medical tourism forums is hard work. we have been in the medical tourism industry for many years, but many patients after having surgery really like to just get on with their lives. Keeping a forum going is more easy with those before actually travelling. of course we need the after cases to be a viable forum.
We are seeing more and more patients from all over the country who are visiting Arizona for their plastic surgery needs and wrapping it together with a “recovery vacation” so I would love to see more of these forums.