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Checklist: Passport, Plane Ticket, Organ Transplant
Author(s) -
Bramstedt K. A.,
Xu Jun
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01847.x
Subject(s) - medicine , organ transplantation , ticket , checklist , visitor pattern , medical tourism , health care , transplantation , medical emergency , surgery , computer security , economic growth , psychology , computer science , cognitive psychology , programming language , economics
Recently, active and proposed US medical insurance programs are taking steps to address the problems of organ availability, long waiting times, and high medical and surgical costs by promoting transplant tourism. Such programs are created explicitly to encourage policy holders to travel to a foreign country for the purpose of obtaining a transplant. Some medical insurance programs have gone as far as to bundle exotic travel and healthcare—transplantation not excluded—into one package. This article details some of the safety and ethics issues with these programs.