Director: | Wolfgang Luck |
Camera: | Rainer Friedrich |
Sound: | Martin Geissmann |
Editing: | Karl-Heinz Satzger |
Production Company: | a&o buero |
First Broadcasted: | May 1, 2008 |
Ailing health care systems, long waiting times for expensive surgeries in USA and Europe: the alluring solution is to care for the patients in low-cost countries. The film shows exemplary in Thailand how the future of health care could look like. But some questions are unexplained: what if something goes wrong? Who makes the money with health tourism? Is it even ethical to practice high-tech-medicine in poor countries for rich patients?