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To: bentway who wrote (204483)	9/27/2006 2:41:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

The results do support my assertion that medical tourism is risky. "Risk" doesn't mean bad results are inevitable, it means bad things can, and do, happen. Many activities that occur every day are riskier in other countries than in the US, for example, sex tourism, adopting a child from another country, investing money in another country, having children with a person who is a resident of another country. Risk doesn't mean "don't do it," it means "you're taking risks you may not be aware of, caveat emptor." Persons touting medical tourism to, say, India, hype the good things, but bad things do happen, and when bad things happen, what is your recourse? I want my doctors to be board certified, and my hospitals certified by AHA. I don't like risk, especially when it's a matter of life and death.