ABSTRACT
Few terms in the English language (or several others for that matter) generate as many dumbfounded looks as the term “medical tourism” when uttered by a speaker to the average person or to a crowd of people outside this niche industry. Although the practice of traveling for healthcare, wellness, or specialty treatment available outside of one’s hometown is not new at all, the term “medical tourism” is a neologism (a newly coined term, word or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language).
