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Unpacking Medical Tourism

Medical tourism occurs when an individual crosses a national border to receive medical services. While the lack of patient data due to health privacy regulations makes sizing the medical tourism industry challenging, some estimates place the global value at over $70 billion. Read More

Pursuing a PhD for the Love of Science

How does someone with a degree in electrical engineering spend a career in finance, retire, and then head to Georgetown for a master’s in biotechnology, eventually pursuing a PhD in pharmacology? Georgetown Medicine sat down with Kimbell Duncan (MS’15, PhD’22) to find out. Read More