Medical Tourism
Surgery tourists warned after patient's death
A trip to Asia to get a cheap operation that cost a man his life is being held up as a warning to New Zealanders looking for cut-price surgery.
Surgery tourists warned after patient's death
A trip to Asia to get a cheap operation that cost a man his life is being held up as a warning to New Zealanders looking for cut-price surgery. A coroner's investigation has faulted the standard of… Audio
India's limb-lengthening industry
India correspondent Vidhi Doshi on India's burgeoning leg-lengthening industry. People are paying serious money to be taller, and endangering life and limb(s) in the process. Audio
Medical tourism 'mirrors colonial inequalities'
New Zealanders travelling to countries for cheap healthcare are further widening a two-tier system, an Otago University study says. Audio
Kirsten Lovelock - Medical Tourism
Increasing numbers of New Zealanders are returning home with new hips or knees or other surgical and dental procedures performed at overseas clinics that provide services for medical tourists. Dr… Audio