Turkey has been actively promoting itself as a medical tourism destination for Americans and Canadians over the last year or two. The value of the Turkish Lira is quite low compared to the US Dollar making prices in Turkey even lower than Mexico's! But, Medical Tourism should be less about price and more about value, bang for the buck, promises made and expectations met.

In this episode, we'll talk to Krystina about her recent dental tourism experience in Turkey. In part one, we will find out about her "Top-Down" sales experience during her research and planning phase in connecting with a medical tourism 'facilitator' company to help her organize her treatment in Turkey. These call center agents can be very friendly and reassuring, making the patient feel sure that their "Bottom-Up" experience, once they step off the plane in the destination country, will be just as attentive as the sales process was. In part 2, we will hear how accurately her expectations were met after her arrival in Turkey, starting at the airport!

Today’s podcast is a follow-up discussion with Christina and Caren Wilson-Elliott, LME (Licensed Medical Esthetician and Recovery Specialist) on the last podcast that was a short review of the book, "The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators" by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen.

The book talks about the 5 Skills that Disruptive Innovator’s employ, namely:

Associational Thinking, Questioning, Observing, Networking and Experimenting.

Since we’ve both read the book and see the applicability to our own care model development, we were inspired to go a bit deeper and talk about these skills/traits as a way to … . ‘Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete!’

If you're involved in healthcare or medical tourism and this podcast resonates with you, you might be interested in joining your tribe and the IMTCC's Medical Tourism Integrity Initiative. Find out more here.

If you're a patient that is curious, uncertain... or frustrated, we can help!

Email me at: christina@imtcc.org

And remember, in the words of Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!

In this bonus short episode, Christina does a short review of the book, "The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators" by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen.

For all its faults and bad apples, Medical Tourism - as the ultimate free market answer to the broken healthcare delivery system - has had the freedom to successfully employ the 5 skills discussed in the book but perhaps not enough of the 'industry players' have had the COURAGE to buck the status quo and consider implementing a 'new model that makes the existing model obsolete,'... YET!

If you're involved in healthcare or medical tourism and this podcast resonates with you, you might be interested in joining your tribe and the IMTCC's Medical Tourism Integrity Initiative. Find out more here.

If you're a patient that is curious, uncertain... or frustrated, we can help!

Email me at: christina@imtcc.org

And remember, in the words of Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!