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Medical tourism in Asia Under the Knife

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Feb 15, 2014
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Medical tourism in Asia is booming. People from both Asia and the West are being attracted to cities and “hubs” of medical excellence in a number of countries, such as Malaysia, Thailand, India, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. This tourism is a reversal of medical travels’ historic trend of being from low- to high-income countries.

But the travel for …

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