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Article: Welcome to the hotel cardiac bypass
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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See Disney World and have a health check-up. Relax in a suite
in the Hernia Inn after a few rounds of golf, or take a sun, sea
and surgery break in Spain. This is the era of health tourism and
no more does travelling for health reasons mean a spin through the
rubber doors of the local infirmary. A growing minority of
patients around the world are travelling for health, and private
hospitals are pitching to rich foreigners for medical treatment in
tandem with a holiday. After all, why just have a hedonistic
vacation when you can have a heart by-pass in the whispering luxury
of a private hospital-cum-hotel? It is the perfect package for
neurotic times.
Mixing holidays and medical care is ...