title: 'Medical tourists' are unique ED challenge.
abstract: When foreign visitors present in your ED, treating their immediate medical complaints may be the least of your problems, say ED managers who regularly treat "medical tourists". You must be prepared to: Help arrange for housing if patients or family members must remain in town until their follow-up visit. Make sure to have access not only to verbal translation services, but to individuals who can read drug labels and medical histories that are written in foreign languages.
mesh_terms: D054521:Cultural Competency; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D014175:Translating; D014195:Travel; D014481:United States