Possible Early Examples of Medical Tourism
| Autor: | Yusuf Şükrü Çaĝlar, Eray Serhat Aktan, Faruk Tonga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Medical treatment business.industry Medical tourism Persia General Medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Health tourism History 17th Century 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medical Tourism Ottoman empire Informed consent Medical illness Family medicine Humans Medicine Ottoman Empire Registries 030212 general & internal medicine business Consent Forms human activities Tourism |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 362:227-232 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9629 |
| Popis: | Health tourism has hundreds of years of history, most notably in visitors traveling to thermal baths. Medical tourism, a type of health tourism, has rapidly expanded in the last quarter century by patients travelling abroad to health centers for medical treatment. Because of lack of records in ancient times, the history of tourism for actual medical treatment is unknown. In Ottoman archives, medical treatment consent forms of patients were officially documented. We analyzed these existing records to identify foreign citizens who came to the Ottoman Empire for medical treatment. In our screening of Konya Şer'iye registration records, we found medical consent forms for three non-Ottoman foreign citizens. All three patients had the same medical illness and came to Konya for medical treatment. Therefore we emphasized that those patients searched for the name of doctor who was an authority on that illness. This study indicates that medical tourism may have occurred well before the 20th century. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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