Medical travel Quality Alliance uses medical travel and medical traveler to describe traveling international patients who display the characteristics and actions related to treatment and care described here. Practically speaking, to call both the organ transplant recipient and the dermatology patient medical tourists helps neither of them better understand the responsibilities, risks and realities of obtaining their particular treatment overseas. Nor does it help the health care specialist, the facilitator or other service provider give the most appropriate and safest treatment and care for the patient.
Medical tourism, health tourism
We can’t fight Google, so we reluctantly have accepted usage of the phrase medical tourism to describe just about every sort of person traveling just about anywhere for just about any kind of health-related activity. We continue to use medical tourism and medical tourist to reach out to consumers or media, even though health tourism might be more accurate.