Travel insurance.
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.
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Intensive Care Unit, Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health, Victoria.
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