Planning a treatment trip: the timeline
Most problems with treatment abroad come from compressing the timeline, not from the medicine.
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Travelling with medicines and medical equipment
Prescribed medicines have led to detentions. The rules are knowable and worth checking.
Using interpreters and communicating across languages
A family member who speaks the language is not the same as a professional interpreter.
Bringing someone with you: the companion role
The most useful thing a companion does is make the call when the patient hesitates.
Questions that change a consultation
A handful of questions consistently produce better information than anything else you could ask.
Why you should hold your own medical records
Health systems do not transfer records across borders. You are the transfer mechanism.
Emergency care abroad: what to know before the emergency
The decisions that matter most are made in the first minutes, usually by someone who is frightened.
Vaccination and travel health: planning beyond the checklist
Requirements and recommendations are different things, and conflating them causes problems at borders.
Building a country file: what to research and keep
One document, prepared once, that answers the questions you cannot research during a crisis.