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Plain-language definitions for the terms in your report, A to Z.
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The clinicians who review our guides, and what each one covers.
Medical Glossary (A–Z)
Plain-language definitions for the words on your report — you can listen to them too.
BMI
Body Mass Index divides weight in kilograms by height in metres squared, producing a screening number used across medicine.
Stent
A stent is an expandable mesh scaffold placed inside a narrowed artery to hold it open, usually during angioplasty.
General anaesthesia
General anaesthesia is a medication-induced, fully unconscious state with airway support, monitored continuously by an anaesthetist.
Biopsy
A biopsy removes a small tissue sample so it can be examined under a microscope — the definitive step in most cancer diagnoses.
Graft
A graft is the unit actually moved during transplantation — in hair surgery, a follicular unit of one to four hairs with its supporting tissue.
Blastocyst
A blastocyst is an embryo five to six days after fertilisation, when it has formed a fluid-filled cavity and two distinct cell groups.
Patient Rights & Safety
Flying Home After Surgery: The Safe Window, the Clot Risk and the Symptoms That Cannot Wait
Your return flight is a clinical decision, not a booking preference. Who actually sets the date, why the cabin matters, and the symptoms that mean an emergency department…
Clinical Digests
How to Verify a Clinic and Surgeon Abroad Before You Pay
A licence is granted by the state and is compulsory. An accreditation is voluntary, purchased, and…
How We Price-Check Treatment Abroad: Our Cost Methodology and Its Limits
Every price in this market is published by someone selling something. Here is exactly how TreatGuide…
Planning Treatment Abroad: Decide, Verify, Then Book
Many people choose a price, then a clinic, and only then ask whether they should have…
What to Ask Before Surgery Abroad: 21 Questions, and the Answers That Should Worry You
Twenty-one questions to send before you pay a deposit — each one paired with a good…
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Flying Home After Surgery: The Safe Window, the Clot Risk and the Symptoms That Cannot Wait
How to Verify a Clinic and Surgeon Abroad Before You Pay
How We Price-Check Treatment Abroad: Our Cost Methodology and Its Limits
Planning Treatment Abroad: Decide, Verify, Then Book
What to Ask Before Surgery Abroad: 21 Questions, and the Answers That Should Worry You
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How long after surgery can I fly home, and who actually decides?Patient Rights & Safety
There is no single answer, and we deliberately do not publish a table of days. The interval depends on the procedure, on your own recovery and clotting history, and on the length and shape of the journey — a two-hour direct flight and a fourteen-hour trip with a connection are not the same exposure, and for some operations flying may be advised against entirely until something has resolved. Two parties decide: the operating surgeon makes the clinical judgement and should put it in a signed, dated letter, and the airline may then require a medical information form completed by a doctor and refer it to its own medical department, which can take several working days. A coordinator's verbal reassurance is not a clearance, and it carries no weight with an airline or an insurer. Ask for the date in writing before you book anything you cannot change.
Is JCI accreditation enough to prove a clinic abroad is safe?Patient Rights & Safety
No — it is useful evidence about the facility, not about your surgeon. JCI and comparable bodies audit systems: infection control, medication safety, emergency response, record-keeping and governance. They do not assess the technical skill or case volume of the individual who will operate on you, and the CDC's medical tourism guidance states plainly that accreditation does not guarantee a good outcome. Treat accreditation as one check among three: facility licence, individual registration, and scope of practice.
Why won't TreatGuide just tell me the price of my operation?Treatment in Türkiye
Because there isn't one. What you will be charged depends on your anatomy, your medical history, what the assessment finds, and what the clinic includes in its package. We publish a dated range built from quotes that pass a defined package test, so you can check whether your own quote is ordinary or unusual. Anyone giving you a single confident figure for a procedure they have not assessed is selling, not informing.
Is it safe to have surgery abroad?Treatment in Türkiye
Safety depends far less on the country than on three things: whether you are genuinely a candidate for the operation, whether the facility and the named surgeon are verifiably licensed and registered, and whether someone is responsible for you after you fly home. Complications occur everywhere, including at home; distance is what makes them harder to manage. Discuss the specific procedure and your own risk factors with a clinician who is not selling it to you, and before you travel ask your surgeon which warning signs after your particular operation mean you should seek emergency care rather than send a message.
Is it rude to send twenty-one questions before a consultation?Patient Rights & Safety
No, and how a clinic reacts to the list is part of the assessment. Surgical teams that treat international patients routinely handle detailed written questions, because informed consent across a border depends on it. If a team responds with irritation, delay or an insistence on discussing it by phone instead, that reaction is a finding. You are the one carrying the risk and the cost of the journey.
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