092: Patient Advocate Offering Full-Medical Service to Patients in Guatemala with Lori Shea

Lori Shea is the Founder and CEO of Guatemala Medical Travel which started in 2009. She is an advocate to patients and assures them that they receive the finest medical care in Guatemala. They have spent many years in establishing a professional relationship with their network of educated, skilled and honest doctors and surgeons. Full-medical service and attention are provided to international patients by caring assistants from the initial consultation right through 100% recovery and voyage home which literally makes a patient stress-free. Find out more about the Guatemalan Healthcare and what separates them from other medical tourism companies.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

How Guatemala Medical Travel started
How Lori Shea started helping people informally by making calls and investigations on her friends behalf that eventually led her to starting her own medical facilitating company
About her first patient/client, who was her best friend, and asked her assistance regarding a cataract surgery down in Guatemala
How she brought her 87-year old mother down to Guatemala to have a cataract surgery which was a huge success
About their high-end first class doctors which provides honest and straight-forward assessment to patients
About the types of surgeries that they accept and assist with
About GMT’s full medical service and attention they provide their patients from the initial consultation right through recovery and their journey home
All the GMT representatives and doctors speak English and Spanish fluently
The trends that they are seeing in their facility currently
About her top three tips to patients who would want to receive a surgery outside the US e.g Guatemala
The cost savings a patient could have in Guatemala compared that of in the US

The Resources

The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

Diabetes researchers find faster way to create insulin-producing cells

“University of British Columbia, in collaboration with BetaLogics Venture, a division of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, has published a study highlighting a protocol to convert stem cells into insulin-producing cells. The new procedure could be an important step in the fight against Type 1 diabetes.”

“The protocol can turn stem cells into reliable, insulin-producing cells in about six weeks, far quicker than the four months it took using previous methods.”

You can learn more about this discovery at this link.