Medical travel guidebooks

A handful of guidebooks geared to prospective individual medical travellers has been published since 2006. Here are links to them:

• Josef Woodman (2007) Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism, First edition; Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel, Second edition
• David Hancock (2006) The Complete Medical Tourist: Your Guide to Inexpensive and Safe Cosmetic and Medical Surgery Overseas
• Jeff Shult (2006) Beauty from Afar: A Medical Tourist’s Guide to Afforable and Quality Cosmetic Care Outside the US
• Paul Gahlinger (2008) The Medical Tourism Travel Guide: Your Complete Reference to Top-Quality, Low-Cost Dental, Cosmetic and Medical Care Overseas
• Frances Sharpe and Patrick W. Marsek (2009) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Medical Tourism (Soon to be released)

The Patients Beyond Borders guide has now launched a series of country-specific and medical condition-specific editions. It is already starting to publish institution-specific profiles as well.

• Singapore (1st and 2nd editions, available in English and Arabic)
• Taiwan
• South Korea
• Malaysia