Our physicians and health care coordinators have extensive, hands on experience working with doctors and hospitals throughout Mexico. We began developing our network of Mexico’s finest doctors and hospitals in 2000 by conducting personal interviews and educational background checks on more than 700 Mexican doctors and inspecting over 80 private hospitals. We spent 6 years researching the Mexican healthcare system before we referred our first patient for surgery in February of 2006. As a result, if you decide to let MedToGo coordinate your surgery or medical service in Mexico, you can be assured that you will be working with the country’s finest doctors and institutions.

You will have also hired a team of U.S. physicians and health care and coordinators that will oversee your care and serve as your advocate while you are in Mexico. You will not be alone. Your safety and peace of mind are our primary concern. Furthermore, we can offer you complete healthcare packages with up to 75% off the price of a comparable experience in the U.S.-without a compromise in quality.

• Our physicians meet and hold personal interviews with all Mexican physicians.
• We verify the doctor’s educational experience and credentials, including board certification and licensing.
• We request and check professional references and assess a doctor’s local reputation through various professional and personal resources. Doctors must be in good standing with their community and hospitals. There must be no history of current or repeated legal malpractice.
• We review physician resumés and give preference to physicians who have been consistent with continuing medical education, who are active in their medical societies and who have been entrusted with leadership roles within their institutions.
• We examine evidence of their surgical success rates.

• Prior to including a surgeon or physician into our program, we attend his/her operations to evaluate competence and skill.

But if you hire MedToGo we will not only provide you with a selection of Mexico’s finest health care providers and coordinate your procedure, we will also be your advocates while you are abroad and not rest until have returned home.

Your Mexican hospital and doctor compensates MedToGo for marketing services, and MedToGo does not add additional fees to the cost of your package. MedToGo does not accept cash incentives or alterations in compensation from physicians or hospitals. This ensures that our recommendations are unbiased and based solely on our experience and quality assessment.

I was assured this was an optimistic figure at best; it would most likely be much higher. This was out of the question; I had to find a much more economically feasible alternative or face being permanently disabled.

I’d heard good things about medical care in Mexico, but my experience in the ‘70’s of our kids encountering a corpse washed up on the beach during a Rosarito Beach vacation weekend, as well as reading of the more recent drug wars, made me highly uncomfortable about the prospect. After searching on the Internet for “medical care in mexico,” MedToGo’s website prominently appeared and after I’d read the comprehensive information on it, I was willing to investigate further. It was shortly after contacting MedToGo that I told my MedToGo health care coordinator of my great anxiety, comparing it to going to a “war zone” for medical care.

He was most reassuring, and after I’d spoken to a previous MedToGo client who’d had a knee replacement in Puerto Vallarta (coincidentally, by the same surgeon and hospital I used) and who told me of his complete satisfaction with MedToGo’s services and the superior quality of the medical treatment that he’d received, I became slightly more at ease. After I’d chosen that same Orthopedic Surgeon and hospital for my surgery, and I’d sent my tests, scans, and local surgeon’s evaluation to MedToGo for treatment analysis, they quoted me a cost that was a fraction of the one I’d obtained locally. I was also told that it included all medical treatment, hospital, medications, aftercare in Mexico and MedToGo costs. I had to ask him to repeat it again in more detail, as I couldn’t believe my ears.

At that point we settled on dates and MedToGo then found me the accommodations and air travel parameters I’d specified at a very good cost (so I was told by my world-travelling friends), and I readied myself for this new adventure with my detailed MedToGo Patient Information Package in hand.

After deplaning in Puerto Vallarta, I was greeted by a large sign with my name, leading me to my Orthopedic Surgeon’s representative, who took me to my hotel, explaining the details of what was coming. I rested the first day in PV, and the next day, I met my Orthopedic Surgeon for the pre-op consultation. In a warm, friendly, unhurried and professional manner, he answered all my questions about my surgery scheduled for the following day, then we went on to more casual conversation about PV and ourselves. I was unused to such warmth from medical professionals!

I was taken to the hospital the next day and after being made comfortable, met again with my surgeon just before surgery, and began the sedation. I awoke after surgery in a clean and well ordered room, with a nurse asking how I felt, explaining the IV supplement and pain management, and showing me the Call button, with instructions to press it if there was anything I needed. It was only when I did press it and a nurse was at my side in less than 30 seconds (every time, without fail) did I begin to appreciate the level of care I was being given.

My surgeon wished to monitor my post-surgical condition closely, so I was in the hospital for 2 days per his orders. His medical assistant, also a physician, soon met me in my hospital room and began the aftercare process. Then, after it was decided I could safely leave the hospital, I was set up with the prescribed medications and taken back to my hotel. My Physical Therapist came to see me shortly thereafter and started me on a regimen of mild but important post-op exercises and muscle stimulation, which she gradually increased in her daily visits. The surgeon’s medical assistant noted above came regularly to monitor my recovery, change my surgical dressing, and afterwards have delightful conversation. This made me greatly look forward to all of my aftercare professional’s visits!

As I continued to recover, I began to explore Puerto Vallarta, riding the bus into Old Town and walking on the beachfront Malecón walkway, dining at the seafood restaurants that are everywhere in PV, looking at shops and galleries and talking to local residents (both natives and expats alike) in my mangled Spanglish. I felt as if I had gone to a different world of warmth and acceptance; as I look back, I cannot recall one moment of negativity or hostility.
“War zone,” indeed!

On the last day before my departure, my surgeon, medical assistant, and physical therapist all met me to be sure I understood my aftercare requirements when back home and to assure me, as they and MedToGo had many times, that I only need call and I could get any questions that I may have answered.

So today I’m getting better, as I will tomorrow, and I follow my doctors orders, given with so much care and concern, to the letter. Doing so, I’ve been assured that in 2 or 3 months I’ll have full functionality of my shoulder.

I hope this gives a clear and accurate sketch of this very healing, meaningful, and deep journey; it’s one that I’ll never forget. I’m so very grateful that I called MedToGo to begin it.

Sincerely,
John S. (Jack) Brooks