{"id":5326,"date":"2010-12-21T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:37:42","slug":"search-for-worlds-best-health-care-leading-bahamians-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/search-for-worlds-best-health-care-leading-bahamians-to-michigan","title":{"rendered":"Search For World&#8217;s Best Health Care Leading Bahamians to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Michael Maura, a businessman from the Bahamas, would not settle on anyone but the best to treat his prostate cancer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He called and visited several top U.S. centers, read books by leading specialists and searched the Web.<\/p>\n<p>His decision-making led him to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where urology chief Dr. Mani Menon, a world leader in robotic prostate cancer surgery, has attracted 600 patients from 50 states and 22 countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very glad I came here,&#8221; Maura said last week as he headed to a two-bedroom guest apartment Henry Ford offers patients.<\/p>\n<p>In a state better known for its autos and sports teams, Michigan hospitals draw patients from as far away as India, Brazil and Turkey in a form of reverse medical tourism. Patients come to seek out several dozen high-powered medical teams for cancer treatment, spinal cord rehabilitation, epilepsy and blinding eye conditions in babies, among other care.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bahamian businessman Michael Maura researched the best place to go for treatment of his prostate cancer, his decision-making led him to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,33,113],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-medicine","tag-tourism","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}