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   Invariably, the rising cost of health care in Western countries has engendered a phenomenon known as "medical tourism". They benefit people who can not afford expensive medical treatment at home or who want to get higher quality health care, in contrast to what they can get inside their country. Also, medical tourism, are increasingly used by employers who find it less expensive way of health insurance of their employees.


   The list of countries where sent in search of medical tourism are the most common - India, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, where transaction costs make up only a fraction of such procedures in Western countries.


  According to many reports, the best hospitals in these countries, staffed by well-trained surgeons, trained in the U.S., Britain and other countries where medical care is much more expensive.

   And in these hospitals are sent not only to tourists who want to combine vacation with a surgical facelift or tummy. Patients fly out there and for more serious operations such as heart surgery, hip replacement and the other from a medical point of view of the required operations.For example, one of Thailand's hospitals «Bumrungrad» is as luxurious as any resort hotel and has in place staff of about 500 physicians with international training and modern medical technology. India aspires to leadership in the field of "medical tourism", and the hospital boom in this country pulls back Indian physicians who trained abroad, but want to work in India, even though they can earn far more in the United States or other Western countries .

   Besides the fact that these hospitals are often better equipped than most North American hospitals, they are also very positive attitude towards their customers. For example, after surgery patients are usually allowed to stay in the hospital several days longer than in America where there is usually discharged earlier because of high costs.

   However, there are downsides of medical tourism. For example, not everyone decides to fly half the world, at considerable cost, and upon arrival to master an unfamiliar culture and often faced with shocking levels of poverty, as soon as you leave the limits of luxury hospitals. By the weaknesses of medical tourism can be attributed more and a low level of legal protection against various types of medical malpractice in the event that something goes wrong, as well as local epidemic diseases such as malaria, which you need protection.

   Still, experts predict that medical tourism in the world will only increase, because with the ever rising medical costs and decreased quality of care, as in Western countries, it is not surprising that many patients and entrepreneurs have resorted to medical care through third persons.