title: Travel insurance.
abstract: In this article are salutory and awful stories, all based on true cases. They serve to illustrate how terrible the problems can be when travel insurance is not appropriately secured before a traveller becomes sick, or where the patient assumes the risk himself, without insurance, in the absence of a proper understanding of the consequences.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit, Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health, Victoria.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corke
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007346:Insurance, Accident; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D014195:Travel / Q000191:economics*; D014342:Truth Disclosure