| If you're one of the millions of Americans with | | | | some shopping and sightseeing while your |
| poor or no insurance and suddenly need coronary | | | | appointments are scheduled and your surgery is |
| bypass surgery, what do you do? If it's not an | | | | scheduled. You'll visit with your cardiac surgeon |
| emergency, you can consider having your | | | | and perhaps more tests like stress tests or |
| procedure at a fraction of the western cost of | | | | angiography will need to be performed. You may |
| the same procedure by going to a foreign | | | | see a cardiologist and an internist as well. This will |
| country like Malaysia, Thailand, India and Costa | | | | represent your medical team and they are all |
| Rica. There are board certified and internationally | | | | internationally board certified and well trained in |
| renowned surgeons there who can do your | | | | their field. The surgeon has done hundreds of |
| surgery safely and not unlike its done in the west | | | | coronary bypass surgery procedures before. |
| and you'll save money in the long run. | | | | Eventually, it will be time for surgery and you'll go |
| You start by contacting MedPath or other medical | | | | to a luxury hospital room where you'll feel like |
| tourism site and you talk to them about what | | | | you're being treated like a king or queen. The |
| you need and when you need it by. Your location | | | | staff is well trained and knowledgeable about |
| is arranged and the flights to and from the foreign | | | | coronary bypass surgery. You'll go to a modern, |
| country is arranged. You make plans to travel | | | | state of the art, well equipped surgical suite |
| overseas and fly to your medical location. | | | | where modern anesthesia is used and all of the |
| What Happens When I Get There? | | | | modern equipment is available. You won't know |
| You will be greeting at the airport by a personal | | | | you're in a foreign country when you have this |
| assistant who will take you to a sumptuous, | | | | surgery. You'll go on a modern heart lung machine |
| luxury hotel room where you'll await your surgical | | | | and will be treated like any western patient in a |
| procedure. If your heart can handle it, you can do | | | | western country. |