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Medical Tourism: Beneficence or maleficence?

They managed to obtain 40 responses to the 45 questionnaires they distributed. Basically, most of the results they obtained from the patients in their region who had sought treatment abroad were similar to those of other studies: 10% of the respondents went for treatment plus tourism, and 2.5% were healthy. Strikingly, 15% of the patients experienced complications after their treatment abroad and this is not an unusual finding in the literature. Only a few of the patient’s in Al-Hinai’s study used the Internet and the available medical tourism offices to obtain information on treatment abroad options instead the majority relied on word of mouth advice from friends. Most of the patients went to Thailand, and orthopaedic conditions were the most common indication for these patients to seek treatment abroad. This article is of special interest to Oman and should stimulate discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of going abroad for medical services. What are its advantages and disadvantages to the patients, and to Omani health services? Likewise, what are the advantages and the disadvantages to the host country? Medical tourism is part of health tourism and it has a long-standing history, going back to thousands of years. Records show that in Greece, thousands of years ago, patients came to the healing god Asklepios in Epidauria.