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Julie Munro on Healthcare Elsewhere

066: Helping Raise Standard of Treatment and Care in Medical Tourism with Julie Munro

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Julie Munro on Healthcare ElsewhereJulie Munro is a medical travel facilitator as well as the President of the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA). She founded her medical concierge business Cosmetic Surgery Travel in 2003. Julie began to direct her work at the MTQUA toward building an awareness in the public and in the healthcare sector of the problems in medical tourism that often prevent medical tourists/patients get the best outcomes. Find out how her company developed a program with a purpose of raising the standard of treatment and care in medical tourism.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • How Julie started her medical concierge business Cosmetic Surgery Travel
  • About the story of a woman who intended to have a plastic surgery that they helped and facilitated
  • About the safety protocols they consider for their patients
  • About the after care treatments they provide to their patients
  • How much a patient saves depending on the location of the procedure the patient intends to have it done
  • About the three major mistakes people commit when considering cosmetic surgery
  • How they developed an international certification for the purpose of raising the standard of treatment and care in medical tourism

The Resources

The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

New Technique to Make Stem Cell Therapy Reality

“The mesenchymal stem cells found in the bone marrow can give rise to bone, fat, and muscle tissue, and have been used in hundreds of clinical trials for tissue repair.”

“Unfortunately, the results of these trials have been underwhelming, the main problem being that these stem cells do not stick around in the body long enough to benefit the patient.”

“Researchers have now found that transplanting mesenchymal stem cells along with blood vessel-forming cells naturally found in circulation improves results.”

You can learn more about this discovery at this link.

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