Health crisis during a vacation getaway: How a dream trip can turn into a nightmare

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What happens if a health crisis occurs during a vacation getaway in a place with fewer hospital or medical resources than usual? Residents of a small island getaway shared thoughts.

"The doctors don’t want to be out here all the time … [There's] a three-month wait due to demand."

When a doctor finally arrived to treat a woman with a hip injury, the physician was a general sports orthopedist — not a specialist in total hip replacement, which is what the family preferred. "We'd all have to travel back and forth over two hours a day to visit her if we opted to send her to the hip replacement specialist in another town."

 

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