How to Choose the Right Doctor or Surgeon

The most important factor in the success of your medical treatment or surgery and your experience on a medical holiday is the Doctor or Surgeon that you choose. A Doctor or Surgeon should be chosen not simply on their credentials, experience and education, but also their flexibility, attitude and communication. Surgery and recovery from any treatment can be a long road, and you need someone who will be approachable, warm and willing to help you throughout your journey.

To choose your Doctor or Surgeon, do some background research. The best research you can do is independent. It is not advisable to make your decision based solely on the number of years experience or letters after their name. Although this can be impressive, they can lack vital qualities in other areas, such as attention to detail.

How can you check and find out who is best for you?

Referrals

We advise all new and future clients to speak with past patients of the Doctor or Surgeon. At any time, you can ask one of the HTIL Customer Service Managers to supply you with contact numbers of past clients. It is this objective and independent voice who can help answer all your questions honestly, and tell you straight about their experience with the surgeon and their results.

Photos

Another way you can choose a photo is through examining photo, particularly in the case of Plastic/Cosmetic Surgery. Please contact your HTIL Manager to obtain these for you.

Medical Board

The Thailand, Indian and Jordanian Medical Boards can furnish you with information on the surgeon's backgrounds, including training, experience and malpractice claims.

Health Tours International have already spent considerable time researching on the surgeons that we work with, and we have investigated closely into their backgrounds and done the legal due diligence of their backgrounds, so this reduces a lot of the risk that comes with choosing a surgeon.

Experience and education

As important as board certification is the Doctors or Surgeon's continuing medical experience. It is best to choose a Medical Professional who continues to develop his skills through hands on treatment and surgeries. Some surgeons choose to spend more time in lectures and writing papers, although on paper this is impressive, what is more important is the number of cases that the surgeon has done.

The surgeons that we recommend have operated on many hundreds of patients with a variety of procedures to give them great experience and knowledge.

Internet

Beware of choosing a surgeon off the internet, as many false claims are made in regards to qualifications or experience.

Hospital Privileges

All the Doctors and Surgeons we recommend are permanent residents or Consultants at the hospitals. Having hospital privileges means the surgeon is subject to approval by a body of his or her peers. This is a very important point because many surgeons have operating rooms in their own offices or other small out of hospital areas. In these environments safety can be markedly compromised because in a hospital doctors are usually not allowed to perform procedures they are not qualified for.

Attitude / Personality

This is an extremely important and often neglected point to choose the best surgeon for you. Surgery and the recovery process is often an emotional road, and you need a surgeon who will have the time for you when you want to discuss and answer your questions.

We only work with Doctors and Surgeons who are professional, flexible and sensitive to international clients. Flexibility is an important point as your holiday is a fixed amount of time, so therefore you need a surgeon who will work flexible or different hours to suit you.

Making your choice

If you have asked all the questions from us and your Doctor or Surgeon, checked his credentials, spoken with past clients, and viewed before/after photos, and have realistic expectations your treatment, chances are very good that you'll be happy with the outcome. Results and safety should be your top priorities.

For any questions at all, please don't hesitate in contacting us at HTIL. We are completely independent, and are not paid by any one surgeon or hospital, which allows us to freely choose the best surgeons and hospitals based on their experience and record of results.