While the healthcare debate rages within the US, Americans facing expensive medical procedures are packing their bags and heading abroad for world-class care at lower prices. "Patients Beyond Borders" shows patients how they can save 25%-75% in the best hospitals and clinics, for dental work, heart surgeries, orthopedics, neurosurgery, LASIK eye repair, in-vitro fertilization, cosmetic surgery, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and even the latest stem cell treatments.

Author Josef Woodman spent three years investigating contemporary medical tourism: interviewing patients, practitioners, administrators, government officials and specialists. He conducted an extensive analysis of safety records, accreditations, comparative costs, and consumer trends, and even became a health traveler himself.

"Medical tourism is not about fun in the sun; it is part of a global shift in healthcare services, and smart American health consumers are taking advantage of the high quality care and lower costs waiting for them overseas" says Woodman. "Many of the 85 million uninsured and underinsured in this country are one diagnosis away from having to put a second mortgage on their homes to pay for an unaffordable treatment."

"We wrote the book so that American's faced with hard choices about their health and financial well-being could learn about the opportunities now available to them," says Woodman. "With more than 100 US-accredited hospitals now offering comparable treatment overseas, Americans have access to top notch care at a fraction of the cost." |GlobalGiants.com|