In a message dated 11/25/2004 2:34:33 AM Central Standard Time, teme17@xxxxxxxxx writes: Finns having dental work or cosmetic surgery in Estonia is quite common, and I guess there is similar movement between Germany and Poland for example. Hi, Who was it who needed dental work? I love the concept of Medical Tourism. My colleague and I are now thinking of what we want to do/be in our 'next professional lives'. She wants to organize travel sorts of things--she is doing some on the side, now, to prepare herself. I will mention this to her... We could set up a Lit-Ideas Medical Tourism trip--and have a party along with getting health needs met! It's a great concept--I wonder how one goes about getting quality control assurances from medical care places (esp thinking of the dental work aspect--that really is outrageous here--the last work I had cost me over $600 out of pocket just in the xrays that were done--and I have dental insurance!) Glad for a new concept to dream about on this Thanksgiving Day, Marlena in Missouri (where she's thinking, if they are going to outsource, we might as well do the 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' and see what happens next...) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html