“Reputations are tarnished at all levels” with such scandals, said Josef Woodman, who spent more than five years researching medical tourism and is the author of Patients Beyond Borders, a guide to finding offshore medical treatment. “This underscores the need for improved oversight and regulations that would help to prevent abuses.”
The Brunei case and another complaint from the United Arab Emirates accusing a group of Singapore doctors, including Lim, of overbilling may hamper the state’s ambition to attract more foreign patients in Asia’s $5.5 billion medical-tourism market. Full story
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