Ask an expert: Medical tourism video: Why is it popular?

Want to know more about medical tourism? Keith Pollard, Managing Director of health tourism website Treatment Abroad answers some common questions about the destinations, treatments and price savings in getting treatment abroad. Use the video clip menu below to select a question.

Video Transcript: Why is medical tourism popular?

We have become international travellers in everything we do, in holidays, in business, and health care has followed that trend.

Low cost air fares out of all the developed countries have encouraged people to travel.  One of the reasons it has become so popular is its success.  People are really happy with the outcomes of their treatment.

We recently completed a survey on six hundred people who had gone abroad for treatment.  Ninety seven percent of those people would go and do it again, ninety six per cent would go back to the same doctor or dentist and ninety six percent would recommend treatment abroad to a friend.