Medical Tourism and Language Barriers in Healthcare
Medical Tourism and Language Barriers in Healthcare

Summary/Abstract: Medical tourism has started to develop and expand due to the extensive travel options. Apart from its medical, social, political and economical aspects, this phenomenon entails several linguistic aspects and impediments which need to be taken into account by specialists. The most important of these are the language barriers which can infringe on the medical outcome itself. The relation between medicine and language lies at the core of the medical act. This paper covers significant research in the field of language and medical tourism, focusing on possible solutions to overcome the linguistic barriers that hinder the medical process. The hereby paper also offers an overview of the research status in Romania, emphasising the fact that there is insufficient focus on the linguistic aspects of medical tourism in our country.

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