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Riz Khan - Medical tourism - 08 Sep 08 - Part 1

2008-10-30T15:32:39Z

So-called medical tourism where patients travel to foreign countries in order to receive care is not a new phenomenon.

But new figures from Deloitte LLP, an international consulting firm, show how popular the practice has become with an estimated 750,000 Americans seeking medical care abroad in 2007.

Projections indicate this number could be as high as six million by 2010.

As interest in medical tourism increases experts say it is necessary for people to understand the risks that it poses.

The issue of healthcare is without a doubt high on the agenda of millions of Americans, but it is also important in those countries with universal health care policies as waiting time for procedures gets longer, costs increase and the quality of medical care following treatments often leaves a lot to be desired.

Riz discusses the phenomenon of medical tourism with Josef Woodman, author of Patients Beyond Borders, Vishal Bali, CEO of the Wockhardt Hospital Group in India, and neuroscientist Dr Wise Young.

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Riz Khan - Medical tourism - 08 Sep 08 - Part 2

2008-10-30T15:32:34Z

So-called medical tourism where patients travel to foreign countries in order to receive care is not a new phenomenon.

But new figures from Deloitte LLP, an international consulting firm, show how popular the practice has become with an estimated 750,000 Americans seeking medical care abroad in 2007.

Projections indicate this number could be as high as six million by 2010.

As interest in medical tourism increases experts say it is necessary for people to understand the risks that it poses.

Riz discusses the phenomenon of medical tourism with Josef Woodman, author of Patients Beyond Borders, Vishal Bali, CEO of the Wockhardt Hospital Group in India, and neuroscientist Dr Wise Young.

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David Rieff - On Mortality and Modern Medicine

2008-10-23T09:31:49Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

David Rieff, son of the late author Susan Sontag, gives his thoughts on modern medicine and mortality.

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David Rieff talks about Swimming in a Sea of Death, a memoir and an investigation, and loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of Sontag's life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.

Rieff confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor - the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living.

David Rieff is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City - Cody's Books

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Headzup: Quarantining For Christ

2008-10-19T09:31:12Z

Mike Huckabee is asked about his statement that AIDS patients should be "isolated" from the rest of the population.

Read more about it here--
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/08/huckabee-aids/

Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at www.headzup.tv

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Riz Khan- Street Talk - 30th July 07

2008-10-14T11:17:11Z

On Riz Khan Street Talk we look at Oscar the cat who can mysteriously predicts the death of patients at a nursing home in the U.S., prison inmates who've taken on the fashion industry, and a magic laser show that leaves one mystified.

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