Come fly with me.

Abstract

We have both worked performing medical retrievals of tourists who have become injured or sick overseas and required a nursing escort. Back to Australia, such services are covered by travel insurance policies. Through this work we have had the opportunity to visit, albeit briefly, some beautiful places with some fantastic health care facilities (we use the term 'fantastic' in the entire spectrum of its meaning!). All our adventurous stories are true, but those recounted here are an amalgam of a number of trips and a number of patients. The places, names and diagnoses of patients have been changed to protect the hospitals, and those people in our care.