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The second axis of our coverage

Specialties

Most readers don't arrive with a country in mind. They arrive with a condition — a diagnosis, a procedure, a decision that has to be made well. This is our coverage entered by what you need: 8 medical specialties, each explained in plain language, each a doorway into the cited, scored factors behind it. Find the one that holds your question, and step in.

Fig. — Two front doors, one set of reports

The matrix is 19 countries × 112 factors. You may enter from either side.
Door one · by place Countries 19 Start from a destination you're weighing — read it whole, the way you'd read a country brief. Go to Countries →
Door two · by need Specialties 8 Start from your condition or procedure — the 8 specialties below organise all 112 factors. You are here

The 8 specialties

Contents · §01–§08

  1. 01 Therapeutic Interventions Cardiac · Orthopaedic · Oncology · Transplant · Neurosurgery The operations people cross borders for: heart surgery, joint replacements, cancer treatment, organ transplants and complex neurosurgery. The specialty where outcomes — survival, revision rates, the surgeon's volume — matter most, and where we look hardest at how a foreign patient is actually cared for. 20 factors 5 subcategories Enter
  2. 02 Diagnostic Services Imaging · Pathology · Screening Getting a clear, trustworthy answer: MRI and PET scans without the wait, biopsy and second-opinion pathology, executive and genetic screening. For many readers this is the first trip — the one that decides whether the bigger decision is even needed. 12 factors 4 subcategories Enter
  3. 03 Reproductive Services Assisted Reproduction · Donor Programmes · Surrogacy · Fertility Preservation Building a family when it isn't simple at home: IVF and ICSI, egg and sperm donation, surrogacy, and freezing eggs for later. The specialty where the law changes most at the border — what is routine in one country is prohibited in the next — so legality and recourse are assessed as carefully as success rates. 16 factors 4 subcategories Enter
  4. 04 Aesthetic & Cosmetic Services Surgical · Non-surgical · Dental aesthetic Elective work, chosen on quality and value: rhinoplasty, body contouring, hair restoration, injectables and cosmetic dentistry. The largest single market in medical travel — which is exactly why we weigh accreditation and revision recourse, not just the quoted price. 16 factors 5 subcategories Enter
  5. 05 Mental Health & Addiction Inpatient · Therapeutic · Addiction Residential and intensive treatment away from home: rehab, dual-diagnosis psychiatric care, trauma-focused therapy and medically-supervised detox. A specialty where privacy, continuity of aftercare and genuine clinical standards — not the spa brochure — decide whether the stay actually helps. 12 factors 4 subcategories Enter
  6. 06 Alternative & Complementary Medicine Traditional systems · Integrative care Traditional and integrative care, assessed by the same evidence standard as everything else: regulated Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and the oversight of integrative-oncology programmes. We are candid where the evidence is thin and clear where regulation protects you. 16 factors 5 subcategories Enter
  7. 07 Wellness & Preventive Care Longevity · Rehabilitation · Preventive Staying well, and recovering properly: longevity-clinic governance, hormone-therapy oversight, post-operative rehabilitation and preventive programmes. The fastest-growing — and least regulated — corner of the field, so the assessment leans hard on who is actually accountable for the medicine. 12 factors 5 subcategories Enter
  8. 08 End-of-Life Services Palliative · Assisted dying The gravest decisions, treated with the most care: palliative care and pain management, and the legality, eligibility and safeguards around assisted dying. A specialty defined by law and residency rules as much as by medicine — and one we have only begun to assess across the countries we cover. 8 factors 3 subcategories Enter

Every factor inside a specialty carries a cited, 1–5 assessment set against our published scale. Coverage varies by specialty and by country — where a finding hasn't been assessed yet, we say so plainly rather than leaving a gap you can't see.

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