Tribune242.com — Bahamians pump millions of dollars each year into the South Florida’s medical tourism sector, a leading doctor told Tribune Business yesterday, adding that this nation provides the largest international client base for several hospitals in the area. Dr. Brown said: “Medical tourism will be a benefit because of our proximity to the United States, even though Bahamians tend to be some of the biggest reverse medical tourists. I use the term guardedly because a medical tourist travels specifically for health care, and who does that more than Bahamians? “We travel to South Florida, and we deposit millions of dollars into the South Florida economy each year. The insurance companies do likewise, paying for millions of dollars of services in the South Florida economy and elsewhere in the US for a number of services that can, quite frankly, be done in the Bahamas – although not all of them but quite a few of them.” Continue reading here.