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Filipinos tend to go to some places in the Philippines to get medical care. This is medical tourism. Tourists are motivated to travel within the country with the intention of receiving medical care. The topic allows the Filipino people to bring out their insights regarding medical tourism in the Philippines. “Medical tourism is the travel of patients from one country to another for medical treatment which is a growing business.” Cohen, I. (2011). Related to the topic, there is a huge number of patients traveling for medical purposes within the country, resulting in business growth in the Philippines. There are many types of medical tourism such as cosmetic surgery, dental surgery and general medicine. Cosmetic surgery is a type of surgery that affects physical appearance. Examples are breast lift, butt lift, chin and ear surgery, face and neck lift, male breast reduction, nose surgery, upper arm lift and other procedures regarding the aesthetic aspect. Dental surgery is what affects your teeth. Examples are dental planks, dental bridges, dental crowns, dental fillings, dental implants, dentures, root canals, tooth whitening, tooth shaping and reshaping, and dental veneers. And finally general medicine which deals with the internal parts of the body such as the blood vessel system, sex change, bone, joint and tendon operations, the urinary tract and heart and kidney transplants. All the examples above refer to medical tourism. People are aware of medical tourism and the Philippines has become well known on the topic. The demand for medical procedures is high, so medical related companies have become a growing business, so companies will expand and... middle of paper... several businesses affiliated with one person in charge should dial up immediately and beyond to develop a broad categorization agreement and to make it easier to implement the agenda in the content of the health and maintenance and martial configuration, in addition, the administration should more liberally sign the formal approval by a superior on a document condition considering the medical tourist and an ambitious foreigner when it comes to the act or process of selling or buying in a market and the advancement movement should exist by organizing the cast in the Philippines through the choice of practice environment medical to travel for recreational providers. Furthermore, the students really know what medical tourism is. Once the survey was finished, researchers knew that medical tourism is really important not only for patients but also for all people in this world..