Medical Tourism in Years Gone By Versus Today
Claudewell S. Thomas, MD, MPH, DLFAPA, is an established psychiatrist who is currently retired ,, He received his medical degree in 1956 at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and specializes in social psychiatry, public health psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Thomas was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry... more
With apologies for the problem of old age, I remember a scene of a monstrous crime involving an individual who sold both of his kidneys and who survived briefly with crude charcoal dialysis. He made a deal with the devils for lungs, heart, cartilage, etc with the provision that they incinerate the residue rather than leave them for animals and insects. He was buying scant security for his wife and children. The recipients of his parts were at huge risk. I dimly recall the near east or the Philippines as the locus mind-bent alteration of an old Bond movie is not the origin.
With the repeal of Roe v Wade and the Texas Federal Judge's ban on 20-year-old old abortion pills safer than aspirin substitutes, women are now second-class class citizens, and companies that produce or distribute the pill may be indicted under Federal law. An executive order can provide temporary relief but the direction is ominous.
Threats to Medicare and Medicaid providers are the disenfranchising of the elderly invite attempting medical Tourism but the influence of the drug cartels is wide and powerful. So much so that it should be discouraged. Stay at home and help your doctors practice medicine devoid of political influence and culture war direction.
