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Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has initiated the registration process for <a href="https://iimcat.ac.in/per/g01/pub/756/ASM/WebPortal/1/index.html?756@@1@@1">Common Admission Test</a> (CAT) 2019. And the last day to register is 18 September. The admit cards will be available on the institute’s official website on 23 October. <keyword id="126478" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIM-Kozhikode">IIM Kozhikode</keyword> will conduct the examination this year. The interested candidates can register on the official website iimcat.ac.in. According to the website notification, the <keyword id="6697097" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cat-exam-2019">CAT exam 2019</keyword> will be held on 24 November 2019 across locations. “Tutorials to understand the format of the test will be available on the CAT website from October 16, 2019. Candidates are advised to work on the tutorials available on the CAT website well in advance,” said Prof. Shubhasis Dey, conveners, <keyword id="6697089" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cat-2019">CAT 2019</keyword> in the <a href="https://iimcat.ac.in/per/g01/pub/756/ASM/WebPortal/1/PDF/CAT_2019_Media_Release.pdf">press release</a>. The result is expected to be declared by the second week of January 2020. The registration fees for general categories is ₹1900 and ₹950 for reserved categories including SC, ST and PWD category candidates. The three-hour exam will include three sections — Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Ability. Each section will be allowed 60 minutes of time. However, students can not switch to a different section without completing the previous one. The exam paper will also include descriptive questions and the students will be allowed to use basic calculator available on the screen.

IIM CAT 2019: Registration process begins, check last date to apply @iimcat.nic.in

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode released an official notification on <a href="https://iimcat.ac.in/per/g01/pub/756/ASM/WebPortal/1/index.html?756@@1@@1">Common Admission Test</a> (CAT) 2019. The interested candidates can register on the official website iimcat.ac.in. According to the website notification, the CAT exam 2019 will be held on 24 November 2019 across locations. And, registrations will begin on 7 August 2019. The last date to register for CAT exam is 18 September. The admit cards will be available on the institute’s official website on 23 October. The result is expected to be declared by the second week of January 2020. The registration fees for general categories is ₹1900 and ₹950 for reserved categories including SC, ST and PWD category candidates. The three-hour exam will include three sections — Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Ability. Each section will be allowed 60 minutes of time. However, students can not switch to a different section without completing the previous one. The exam paper will also include descriptive questions and the students will be allowed to use basic calculator available on the screen. “Tutorials to understand the format of the test will be available on the CAT website from October 16, 2019. Candidates are advised to work on the tutorials available on the CAT website well in advance,” said Prof. Shubhasis Dey, conveners, <keyword id="6697089" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cat-2019">CAT 2019</keyword> in the <a href="https://iimcat.ac.in/per/g01/pub/756/ASM/WebPortal/1/PDF/CAT_2019_Media_Release.pdf">press release</a>. Eligibility Criterion The applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree with minimum 50% marks. The students awaiting final year results can also apply for the exam. Candidates from reserved categories — SC/ST/PwD — should have at least 45% marks in graduation. Last year, the CAT exam was held on 25 November. The IIMs witnessed an 8% rise in female applicants as well.

IIM Kozhikode releases CAT 2019 notifications, check registration date, exam date and eligibility @iimcat.nic.in

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is expected to release admit cards for the <a href="https://iimcat.ac.in/per/g01/pub/756/ASM/WebPortal/1/index.html?756@@1@@1">Common Admission Test</a> (CAT) 2019 today at 5 pm, according to the institute’s official notification. Candidates can download the admit cards from the official website at iimcat.nic.in. The exam will be conducted by IIM Kozhikode this year on 24 November 2019 across locations. The result is expected to be declared by the second week of January 2020. The three-hour exam will include three sections — Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Ability. Each section will be allowed 60 minutes of time. However, students can not switch to a different section without completing the previous one. The exam paper will also include descriptive questions and the students will be allowed to use basic calculator available on the screen. As many as 2,44,169 candidates registered for the examination. Last year, the CAT exam was held on 25 November. The IIMs witnessed an 8% rise in female applicants as well.

CAT 2019: IIM Kozhikode to release admit card soon, check @iimcat.nic.in

(Photo Source: wikipedia.org) <ul><li>India’s latest Common Admission Test (CAT), which was conducted on 25 November for admissions into the 20 <keyword id="63618" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Institute-of-Management">Indian Institute of Management</keyword> (IIM) schools, saw a 50% growth in women candidates taking the exam from six years ago. </li><li>Over 84,350 women candidates registered for the entrance test this year, up 8% from the previous year. </li><li>The IIMs credit up to 5% additional points in the selection process for women aspirants and non-engineers. </li></ul>The number of women candidates taking the latest Common Admission Test (CAT), mandatory for entry into India’s prestigious Indian Institute of Management, has jumped significantly in the last five years. For the latest exam held on 25 November, the number of women candidates was 50% higher than that recorded in 2013 with as many as 84,350 registrations. That figure marked nearly 8% rise in the <a href="https://m.timesofindia.com/home/education/news/50-jump-in-girls-taking-iim-entrance-in-5-years/amp_articleshow/66818559.cms">women candidate registrations</a> from the previous year. With 12,000 more candidates this year compared to last year, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) entrance registered 6,300 female candidates compared to 78,009 from last year. One reason behind the rise in women candidates is IIMs’ attempt to admit more women and increase diversity in classrooms by giving leverage to <keyword id="1312086" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="female-aspirants">female aspirants</keyword>, Times of India reported citing Sumanta Basu, CAT convenor from IIM Calcutta. Earlier, it was <a href="https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/entry-of-female-students-to-iims-sees-a-drop-in-2018/story/280940.html">reported</a> that the IIMs have been aiming at getting 30% women into the postgraduate programmes. The efforts seem to have paid off. The schools have seen a significant rise in placements for female students who accounted for 60% of total summer placement since 2013. <a href="https://www.livemint.com/Companies/YWvi89gxMQezc4ZMUoXi7N/How-IIMs-are-using-CAT-2018-to-take-in-more-nonengineers.html">According to</a> Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, total number of women admitted into the 2015-17 batch were 881, while 1,211 female students enrolled for 2017-2019 class.

India sees a 50% jump in women candidates taking the ‘CAT’ exam for entry into its top business schools

<keyword id="299516" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Raveendran">Raveendran</keyword>, the founder of BYJU’s – The Learning App is the one who championed Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd, the famed edtech company based in Bengaluru. Figures reported in March 2019 show that he has succeeded in creating an education technology company that is worth $5.4 billion (Rs. 37,000 crore). Here are some interesting facts about Raveendran you had probably not known so far. <ul><li>BYJU'S purchased the rights of Indian Cricket Team’s jersey in July 2019.</li><li>In 2006, Raveendran started coaching students for mathematics exams. Everything with this dramatic app started with the support of his students who developed online video lessons for K-12 school. </li><li>In the year 2012, Think and Learn found a place in the ratings Deloitte Technology Fast50 India and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific. Since then, the company maintains its position. </li><li>BYJU’s learning app was launched in 2015 and within the first three months of its launch, more than 2 million students downloaded it. Google Play India rated this app as the ‘Best Self-improvement’ app in 2016.</li><li>Harvard Business School took up BYJU’s app as a business case. By the year 2018, the app had got an overwhelming 15 million users among whom 900,000 were paid users. </li><li>As the founder of this largest open online course, Raveendran coined a motivating phrase “Fall in love with learning” as the tag line for his learning app.</li><li>Before jumping into teaching and online education, Raveendran was working as a service engineer for shipping companies.</li><li>As an ed-tech startup, BYJU’s is the singular learning app from India that received the highest volume of funds from investors. </li><li>Both his parents worked as teachers in Malayalam medium schools. His father taught physics and his mother taught mathematics. </li><li>Raveendran did his schooling in a tiny village of Kerala Azhikode from a Malayalam medium school.</li><li>Raveendran embarked on the idea of starting the online education business only when his friends approached him to share with them the many hacks he had developed for cracking the CAT examination. </li><li>As he scored the full marks in CAT, the IIMs approached him. </li><li>Not only in education, Raveendran is very good at sports too. He had played six different sports in the University level including football, cricket, table tennis, badminton.</li><li>Raveendran has a very interesting fashion mantra KISS which expands as Keep it simple stupid. Guided by this trend, he wears a simple black polo and a basic denim as his most preferred attire and uniform. </li><li>Raveendran is a very inspiring and capable teacher. He has the ability to convey difficult concepts in a lucid way aided by visual learning. </li><li>When he started his classes in Bengaluru, he engaged between 200 and 300 students simultaneously in a huge auditorium. </li><li>Despite not having any Masters degree, Raveendran cleared through the CAT two times with 100 percentile. </li><li>His students and fans popularly call him as BYJU sir. He envisioned to change the way students are taught and he achieved it through hard means however climbing up the ladder to phenomenal success within a very short time. </li></ul>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="199723" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Felicity-huffman">Felicity Huffman</keyword> has signed a deal to act in a comedy pilot for ABC, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-11-30/felicity-huffman-acting-comeback-abc-comedy">the Los Angeles Times reported</a>.</li><li>The pilot will be her first acting job since being charged in the <keyword id="8100207" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-admissions-scandal">college admissions scandal</keyword>. </li><li>Huffman spent 11 days in prison last year after pleading guilty in May 2019 to paying $15,000 to have her daughter's SAT answers falsified as part of the scheme. </li><li>In the new pilot, she will play a widow who inherits a minor-league baseball team after her husband's death.</li></ul>Felicity Huffman, who last year spent nearly <a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-sentenced-college-admissions-scandal-2019-9">2 weeks in prison for her role in the college admissions scandal</a>, is returning to acting.The Emmy-winning actor just signed a deal to star in a comedy pilot for ABC, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-11-30/felicity-huffman-acting-comeback-abc-comedy">the Los Angeles Times reported</a>.The show, based on the life of Triple A World Champion Sacramento River Cats owner Susan Savage, will feature Huffman as a widow who inherits a minor-league baseball team after her husband's death, and will co-star actor Zack Gottsagen as her baseball-loving son who has Down syndrome, <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/11/felicity-huffman-return-acting-tv-baseball-comedy-abc-zack-gottsagan-college-admissions-scandal-zack-gottsagen-becky-hartman-edwards-kapital-1234618744/">Deadline first reported</a>.This will be Huffman's first job in acting since she was charged in the college admissions scandal in March 2019.Huffman, who is married to actor William H. Macy, pleaded guilty in the scheme in April 2019, <a href="https://www.insider.com/lori-loughlin-felicity-huffman-college-admissions-scandal-differences-2019-4">admitting to paying $15,000</a> to have an SAT proctor correct her eldest daughter's exam answers.She was sentenced to 14 days in prison at a <a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-fci-dublin-college-admissions-scandal-2019-10">minimum-security facility in Dublin, California</a>, ordered to pay $30,000, and told to serve 250 hours of community service, <a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-helps-women-after-prison-college-admissions-scandal-2019-12">during which she helped women adjust to life after prison</a>.Huffman served <a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-released-from-prison-college-admissions-sentence-2019-10">11 days of her prison sentence</a> and was released in October 2019.She was among dozens of parents charged in the college admissions scheme, <a href="https://www.insider.com/college-admissions-cheating-scandal-full-list-people-charged-2019-3">a group that also included actor Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli</a>.Loughlin and Giannulli are <a href="https://www.insider.com/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-college-admissions-scandal-sentenced-2020-8">currently serving prison sentences</a> after pleading guilty to paying $500,000 to have their daughters admitted into the University of Southern California as purported crew recruits.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/college-admissions-scandal-full-list-people-sentenced-2019-9">Here's everyone who has been sentenced in the college admissions scandal so far</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/lori-loughlin-felicity-huffman-college-admissions-scandal-differences-2019-4">Why Lori Loughlin will spend 2 months in prison for the college admissions scandal while Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-college-admissions-scandal-sentencing-lori-loughlin-2019-9">Experts told Insider last year that Felicity Huffman's sentencing in the college admissions scandal could make Lori Loughlin flip her plea. Now she has.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/felicity-huffman-helps-women-after-prison-college-admissions-scandal-2019-12">Felicity Huffman is helping women adjust to life after prison as part of her 250 hours of mandated community service for the college admissions scandal</a></li></ul>

Felicity Huffman is returning to acting a year and a half after being charged in the college admissions scandal

<ul><li>The <keyword id="63618" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Institute-of-Management">Indian Institute of Management</keyword> (IIM), Calcutta, on Thursday, signed two Memorandum of Understanding with <keyword id="663053" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Carleton-University">Carleton University</keyword>, Canada and Montpellier Business School, France. </li><li>The move initiated under the Student Exchange Programme (STEP). </li><li>The five-year long pact with Carleton University will foster research programmes and collaborations. </li><li>To make India a ‘hub of higher education, the government will infuse ₹400 crores to build world class institutions in India.</li></ul>The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta signed agreements with two international universities — Carleton University of Canada and Montpellier Business School in France, the university said in a press release. The MoUs will initiate a Student Exchange Programme (STEP) which will focus on boosting teaching, research, and cultural understanding. “STEP is an integral part of <keyword id="78512" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIM-Calcutta">IIM Calcutta</keyword>’s internationalization efforts. It is aimed at providing IIM Calcutta students an opportunity to have learning experience from international environment,” Professor Prashant Mishra, Dean, New Initiatives and External Relations said. The five-year long agreement with Carleton University will foster research, collaboration, executive training and capacity building with scholarship programmes. “It is the intent of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to establish precise academic and financial arrangements, and to support, as appropriate, the exchange of personnel between Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Carleton University,” the university noted. The association between Montpellier Business School and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta will cater to postgraduate and doctoral students, along with teachers and research aspirants. As a part of this, the university will introduce joint executive development programmes, joint research programmes, joint conferences and workshops. “This helps them sharpen their practical skills, equips them with the ability to work in culturally diverse teams and contributes largely to their personal and professional development,” Mishra added. The Finance Minister <keyword id="129243" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nirmala-Sitharaman">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> announced in the Union Budget 2019 that she wants to make India a hub of higher education. To this extent, the government would infuse ₹400 crore to build world class institutions. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/muzamil-anwar-iim-ahmedabad-alumni-wants-to-coach-students-of-war-hit-kargil-students-crack-cat-exam/articleshow/70340045.cms">This IIM alumni wants to coach students of war-hit Kargil crack CAT exam</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/union-budget-2019-for-education-study-in-india-program-announced-by-nirmala-sitharaman/articleshow/70083474.cms">Study in India program to turn the country into an education hub for foreign students</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget-2019-nrf-announcement-reforms-in-education-sector-by-nirmala-sitharaman/articleshow/70087654.cms">A new government body will funnel research grants based on whether they are of 'national importance'</a>

IIM Calcutta to exchange students with universities in France and Canada

When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.He didn't want to shell out the cost of a nice vacation just to find out he didn't need surgery, so he decided to wait, even as his mobility decreased to the point where he had to severely limit his farm work and could hold only one-third of the weight he normally could. Two years later, his patience was rewarded: While on a work trip to Bangkok, he got an MRI for just $460, landing an appointment two days after his consultation at a hospital."The results came back and they said, 'You don't need surgery. You've got a separated rotator cuff,'" Woodman said. The surgeon prescribed physical therapy, which he completed in the US. "The shoulder got way better," he told me. He was glad he waited.Like Woodman, millions of Americans travel abroad for medical procedures each year, saving anywhere from 40% to 90% on the services they receive. Many <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(18)30620-X/fulltext">don't have health insurance</a> or don't get coverage for the procedures they seek out — dental work and cosmetic procedures like breast implants and liposuction are by far the most popular. There's also a small but growing market for people seeking thorough checkups and testing abroad. An ascendant medical-tourism industry is offering these types of screenings, including MRIs and electrocardiograms, in beautiful locations around the world and packaging them with transportation, accommodations, food, shopping, and sightseeing. And with an increasing obsession with "wellness" and celebrities like Kim Kardashian promoting full-body imaging, it's easy to see why more and more Americans are looking to pair cabanas with CAT scans."If you've got some kind of joint pain, or if you have some kind of condition that isn't progressing, incorporate that into your normal travel plans," Woodman, now 72, said. In 2007, he founded Patients Beyond Borders, a healthcare-consulting company that helps Americans plan medical vacations, after growing up taking trips to Mexico for dental work with his dad. "In any kind of industrialized nation, you'd be able to get access to good-quality screening and people who can interpret the results," he said.Medical tourism comes with risks; the American Medical Association recommends going only to medical facilities recognized by international accrediting bodies and following up testing with care at home. But a growing number of Americans are willing to take those risks, as suites of tests abroad are often cheaper and faster than just a single test in the US."We just don't have a preventative-oriented society here in the United States," Woodman said. "Our approach is reactive."In a July <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bryn.elise/video/7386406512593325355?lang=en">TikTok</a> that's amassed over 17 million views, Bryn Elise documented her experience at a Turkish hospital where she received over 30 scans and tests, including an EKG, chest X-ray, and abdominal and thyroid ultrasounds, in a single day. The bill? $830. Without insurance, the cost of an EKG alone in the US <a target="_blank" href="https://enhancehealth.com/blog/how-much-does-an-ekg-cost-at-urgent-care-without-insurance/#:~:text=The%20total%20cost%20of%20an,where%20you%20get%20the%20service.">can vary from $100 to $5,000</a>."Personally, I'd rather spend $700 on a flight to Turkey, get dozens of tests there, and take a whole vacation than spend the thousands that this would have cost in the United States," Elise said in the video, which also featured clips of her on a beach, poolside, and eating a spread of delicious-looking Turkish veggie bowls. The 29-year-old health- and beauty-tourism influencer said she booked the trip because she wanted to investigate some "mysterious ailments," including brain fog, vision problems, and heart palpitations, without paying America's sky-high healthcare costs. She told her followers she had struggled with an eating disorder for 10 years and that "since our US checkups are only a tap on the knee and a blood-pressure check, I've been low-key terrified that I've caused permanent damage to my body but would never find out until it's too late."Her tests unearthed an astigmatism, early signs of osteoporosis, and "critically low" levels of vitamin B12. "The feeling of impending doom I've had due to health concerns is gone," Elise said.She chose a hospital that had been accredited by the Joint Commission International, an Illinois-based organization that has accredited over 1,000 health facilities in more than 70 countries. Dr. Paulo Neno, an international-accreditation surveyor at the commission, told Business Insider the accreditation process takes up to two years to complete and is renewed every three years. It includes a 12-part evaluation, during which a team of doctors and nurses visit the medical facility and assess everything from its operating theaters and intensive-care units to its power and water systems."We are focused on understanding how they are providing safe care for high-risk patients," Neno said.It's unclear, though, how many medical tourists visit accredited facilities, and there's still the question of whether all these tests are useful for someone who is seemingly in good health. Woodman knew he had an issue that needed to be examined, but Elise was more interested in a holistic screening regimen. One person commented on Elise's TikTok, "The hypochondriac in me thinks this is the perfect vacation. I'd go every year."Since COVID-19 came into the picture, health screenings and extensive physicals have received some buzz. Last year, Kardashian got a full-body MRI done by Prenuvo, a US chain of diagnostic clinics that offers the service for $2,500. In an Instagram post promoting it, Kardashian described it as a "life saving machine" that could detect cancer or conditions like aneurysms in their earliest stages. Especially given the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/colon-cancer-cases-doubled-young-people-2024-5">rise in colon cancer</a> among young people — a disease that can spread with no or minimal symptoms — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/get-colonoscopy-colon-cancer-symptoms-colorectal-oncologist-2024-4">early screenings</a> are on more people's minds.But Arturo Vargas Bustamante, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of California, Los Angeles, said these kinds of rigorous tests can often do more harm than good."You may get a lot of things that you may not need based on your age profile, or you may get screenings that ultimately would find something that could lead to treatment that may harm you," he said. US guidelines on which demographics should get tested are based on scientific evidence, he added, while clinics abroad may be more motivated by profit.If a test finds cancer at a very early stage when it's very slow-moving, Vargas Bustamante said, the patient may feel compelled to treat it immediately, subjecting themself to chemotherapy and radiation. But in reality, it's possible they could have gone years without needing to start treatment. "Sometimes knowing too much may not be that good for you," he said.Others, however, think that America's lack of access to robust preventive screening is a critical failure.Dr. Misael Uribe Ramos is the director of international medicine at Médica Sur in Mexico City, a Joint Commission International-accredited hospital that offers checkups with eight different specialists for $1,600. Uribe Ramos has seen interest in rigorous physicals boom since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic — and he thinks it's a good thing.Often when you go to the doctor, it's to treat a specific issue or disease, he said. "But why is that? Because you don't have prevention," he said. "Prevention is the best way to be healthy."In America, chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are leading causes of death and disability, driving the majority of the US's $4.5 trillion in yearly healthcare expenses, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html">according to</a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These illnesses are largely preventable. The CDC also says that between 30% and 50% of cancers diagnosed today could be prevented by reducing risk factors (like not smoking and maintaining a healthy body weight) and getting recommended screenings and vaccinations. However, according to the <a target="_blank" href="https://health.gov/news/202401/prevention-still-best-medicine">US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion</a>, only 5.3% of Americans 35 and older received all recommended clinical prevention services in 2020 — a number that dropped from 8.5% in 2015. Why? Simply put, many Americans aren't regular healthcare users. They often don't have a family doctor, they live too far from one, they don't have a way to get there, or they simply can't afford it, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion says. Meanwhile, preventive-care services aren't prioritized because healthcare providers are paid to treat diseases — not to prevent them by keeping people healthy. A 2020 study said the National Academy of Medicine <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309216/">estimated</a> that missed prevention opportunities cost the US $55 billion annually.Other countries take a different approach. In Japan, for instance, the most basic annual checkups include EKGs, chest X-rays, blood tests, eye and hearing tests, and stool and urine tests. And some residents require a more comprehensive version that includes cancer screening. Japanese employers are required to provide them for all of their employees. In 2019, about 74% of men and 66% of women in Japan completed some type of medical checkup, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.South Korea's regimen is similar to Japan's. On a work trip there in 2010, Woodman had extensive testing done, including an MRI and CT scan, as part of a "wellness preventative program" he tried out for work, he said. He was offered an endoscopy and colonoscopy as part of the package but declined."Testing in the United States is really kind of pathetic," Woodman said. "They weigh you. They take your blood test. 'How tall are you?' And that's pretty much it."Americans seeking better preventive screening tend to visit South Korea, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates, while Mexico, Barbados, and Thailand are popular for genetic and fertility testing, as well as testing related to gender-affirming care, medical-tourism advocates told BI.Many of these countries have hospitals that cater to foreigners. In Mexico, Médica Sur's checkups take about five hours, with screenings across disciplines such as internal medicine, cardiology, gynecology, and ophthalmology. (In the US, a typical physical takes less than an hour.) Packages include breakfast, transportation, accommodation, menus catering to dietary restrictions, discounted sightseeing for an extra cost, and concierge staff who help patients coordinate their stay and remain by their side for the duration. The hospital is also connected to a Holiday Inn if visitors want to stay on-site.Results are available within two weeks, at which point the patient can discuss the findings with a doctor in person or remotely; a checkup three months later is also included in the price. If, for example, the screenings indicate a malignant tumor, Uribe Ramos said, doctors will explain to a patient which follow-up tests they need, either in their home country or at Médica Sur. He recommends getting a thorough exam once a year.Since opening its international-medicine wing in 2019, the hospital has seen 5,000 foreign patients, most of them American and Canadian, Uribe Ramos said.Imani Bashir was living in Cancún three years ago when she felt what she thought was a lump in her breast. At the time she was 34 — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/screening/screening-recommendations-by-age.html#:~:text=Women%20ages%2040%20to%2044,should%20get%20mammograms%20every%20year.">young</a> to be receiving a mammogram — but her family had a history of the disease, so she booked an appointment anyway. In the US, the median <a target="_blank" href="https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e18917">cost</a> of a mammogram ranges from $140 to $360 for women who aren't insured. In Mexico, it was under $50. As a Black woman who grew up in the US without health insurance, the 37-year-old communications director found the experience especially validating."When we go to the doctor and say that we're in pain, it's kind of just shooed away, like it's not a big deal," Bashir said. In Mexico, the medical center didn't question her. Now that she's living in Washington, DC, she continues to travel to Mexico for both her and her son's dental appointments and other medical issues because it's cheaper and easier to get appointments. "It always feels good when you feel like you can take care of yourself, and financially, it's not going to be a detriment to your life and your health," she says.Given how many people experience difficulty navigating the American healthcare system, it's no surprise that the medical-tourism market is growing rapidly. Patients Beyond Borders estimates the industry is growing between 15% and 25% each year. And 2022 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9104082/#:~:text=The%20increase%20in%20medical%20tourism,other%20time%20in%20the%20past.">research</a> found that the increase in international tourism had helped fuel the trend. As <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/travel-agents-back-gen-z-millennials-vacation-planning-overseas-resorts-2024-6">more people spend time abroad</a>, it becomes easier to tack a few small medical tests onto your trip.Vargas Bustamante thinks traveling internationally for rigorous testing probably most benefits healthy people who just want "peace of mind." Despite the risk factors, the industry's growing appeal illustrates the limitations of American healthcare."Why would someone have to buy a plane ticket to go all the way on the other side of the world just for an adequate amount of healthcare? It's nuts," Bashir said. "But if people have the privilege, if people have the money to be able to do so, then I say, yeah."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/manisha-krishnan">Manisha Krishnan</a> is an Emmy award-winning journalist who covers healthcare. She is based in Brooklyn.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>If or how COVID-19 and its treatments affected President <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword>'s cognition is hard to tell. Some typical cognitive consequences are characteristic of Trump himself. </li><li>The public remains in the dark about the president's true mental state since commanders-in-chief aren't required to undergo the types of assessments common in jobs from air-traffic control to reality TV.</li><li>Trump is his doctors' boss, which likely influenced his return to work post-COVID despite having been on drugs linked to especially erratic and bizarre behavior. </li><li>A coalition of psychiatrists says it's their duty to warn the public about what they call the president's dangerous mental state, despite a controversial ethical standard to keep quiet.</li></ul>Three days after a 55-year-old coronavirus patient was discharged from the hospital, the patient in a case study <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-have-coronavirus-delirium-brain-fog-memory-2020-7">began hallucinating</a> that lions and monkeys had invaded her house and clones were posing as people she knew.<a href="https://medium.com/@jessfirger">The health journalist Jessica Firger's</a> lingering coronavirus symptoms also clouded her brain, she wrote, leading her to nearly sear her hand on a hot burner, somehow forgetting she'd been heating it for tea, weeks after her telltale symptoms subsided.For the CNN editor-at-large Richard Quest, the cognitive lapses — appearing months after he recovered from COVID-19 — caused him to trip over curbs and blank on simple thoughts and words, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html">he wrote</a>.These are just some of the frightening cognitive issues blamed on COVID-19: delirium, memory lapses, and poor coordination.How might they appear for the American president? Impaired decision-making? Dangerous, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-from-trumps-florida-rally-show-supporters-not-wearing-masks-2020-10">reckless behavior</a>? An unstable relationship with reality?While those behaviors could signal lingering effects of COVID-19 and its treatments, it's hard to tell since they're characteristic of President Donald Trump himself.And yet the person whose daily decisions affect billions of lives and livelihoods (and, by one estimate, have killed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/06/trump-covid-death-counter/">more than 100,000 Americans</a> in the past seven months alone) appears to have never undergone the types of cognitive tests that experts told Insider were common among military personnel, some doctors and lawyers, and even reality-TV contestants.Trump also seems to have eluded psychiatric evaluation during his latest hospital stay, despite what's known about COVID-19's potential cognitive effects and his powerful therapies' known ones."Here is someone with overwhelming symptomatology, with dangerous presentation to self and others, and already provable [poor mental capacity] in multiple domains over the years," <a href="https://bandylee.com/">Dr. Bandy Lee</a>, a forensic psychiatrist and president of the <a href="https://worldmhc.org/">World Mental Health Coalition</a>, which launched in 2017 to raise alarm about what members viewed as Trump's dangerous mental state, told Insider. "That he did not get a proper psychiatric evaluation is just unbelievable."And while outside mental-health professionals like Lee have attempted to fill in gaps such as these, many keep mum to honor a controversial professional rule.<h2>The coronavirus is leading to frightening cognitive symptoms in some patients </h2>Early in the coronavirus pandemic, doctors thought COVID-19 was a respiratory disease. But it's become increasingly clear that it can affect many body systems, the most troubling of which may be the brain.In one <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acn3.51210">recent study</a>, researchers found that more than 80% of people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 — as Trump was for three nights — experienced neurological symptoms including head and muscle aches, confusion, and dizziness.About a third of patients in the recent study experienced the most severe cognitive consequence, encephalopathy, a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/hepatic-encephalopathy">broad term describing altered brain function or structure</a>, which was associated with an increased risk of additional complications and even death.Those who experienced encephalopathy tended to be male, older (65 years old, on average), and admitted to the hospital soon after symptoms set in. Trump is 74, and he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center less than 24 hours after announcing his diagnosis on October 1.It's possible Trump did have a mild case of COVID-19 and was simply admitted to the hospital and given an unprecedented combination of powerful drugs because he's commander in chief. That doesn't mean the virus couldn't have affected his brain, however, as thousands of never-hospitalized patients have reported scary <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-coronavirus-symptoms-long-haulers-months-2020-9">memory lapses and persistent brain fog</a>.One study <a href="https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa240">published in July</a> in the journal Brain found some patients <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/survivors-of-severe-coronavirus-cases-are-battling-delirium-2020-6">developed brain swelling and delirium</a>, others developed nervous-system disorders like Guillain-Barré syndrome that can cause paralysis, and a few experienced life-threatening strokes — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-linked-brain-damage-delirium-neurological-problems-2020-7">even if they'd had relatively mild illnesses</a>. Even if the virus has spared Trump's nervous system, the hefty cocktail of experimental therapeutics surely affected his cognition. The steroid dexamethasone alone has been linked to side effects that can last for days, ranging from sleep disturbances to psychosis.<div type="image" title="trump motorcade" height="1064" width="1487" msid="78796899" hostid="261"></div>For someone with Trump's "personality structure," they can also include poor impulse control, manic behavior, and poor judgment, <a href="https://www.obamaonthecouch.com/about/">Dr. Justin Frank</a>, a former clinical professor of <keyword id="115983" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="psychiatry">psychiatry</keyword> at the George Washington University Medical Center, told Insider.Observers pointed to the president's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hannity-california-water-to-pacific-little-tiny-fish-2020-10">bizarre rants</a>, rejection and then re-acceptance of relief-bill talks, and decisions about whether and how to debate his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, as evidence of the drug's effects. His eldest son <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-thought-father-acting-crazy-walter-reed-report-2020-10">is said to have described</a> him as "acting crazy" for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-takes-a-brief-car-ride-ignoring-own-covid-infection-2020-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">riding in an airtight SUV </a>with members of the Secret Service while still surely contagious.Trump has "always challenged reality," Frank told Insider, "but never to the degree of disinhibition he's shown since his hospitalization and discharge."<h2>The Trump presidency caused a rift in the psychiatric community right away</h2>Trump's <keyword id="6354774" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mental-health">mental health</keyword> alarmed experts long before he contracted COVID-19, reigniting <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brainstorm/201701/shrinks-battle-over-diagnosing-donald-trump">an ongoing professional controversy</a> about whether it's ethical to comment on a public figure's mental health without an in-person examination. Adherents of the Goldwater Rule, an American Psychiatric Association principle established in 1973 to prevent armchair diagnoses, say assessments can't be made based on public behavior and making them tarnishes and misuses the organization's diagnostic bible, the DSM. Some argue that speculation about Trump is politically, not professionally, motivated and that providing diagnoses from a distance <a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/apa-blog/2016/08/the-goldwater-rule">can be stigmatizing and dangerous</a>.<div type="image" title="Trump" height="1334" width="2000" msid="78796905" hostid="261"></div>But others see Trump's behavior as so glaringly dangerous to society that they've argued it's their duty to warn the public. Lee's organization, which has grown from 27 to thousands around the world, spawned out of a meeting concluding just that."It is spelled out in our ethical guidelines that we have a responsibility to our patients, as well as to society," Lee, an author of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," told Insider.She and others doubled down on that stance when APA doubled down on its own, with the organization <a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/apa-blog/2017/03/apa-remains-committed-to-supporting-goldwater-rule">clarifying</a> in 2017 that the Goldwater Rule didn't just forbid psychiatrists from diagnosing people at a distance but from commenting on them at all.Goldwater opponents argue that is unduly heavy-handed. Unlike speculation about what a celebrity's wild night out says about their mental health or pontificating on a candidate's intentions, <a href="http://doctor-ramani.com/">the clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula</a> told Insider, "this is actually talking about [observable behavioral] patterns that have ramifications, not only for everybody in this country, but for everybody in this world."She and other experts argue that many psychiatric evaluations don't require an in-person assessment, since they're largely based on observations of people's behavior and testimony from those around them.Interviewing the patient, in contrast, isn't always effective because "when your mind is disordered, you become a less reliable source of information," Lee said.<h2>Psychiatric professionals have long said Trump's behaviors are indicative of a range of mental illnesses</h2>Those unhindered by the Goldwater Rule have made a range of observations about Trump's mental health beginning even before he took office, the most common being his displays of <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-narcissistic-personality-disorder-mary-trump-john-zinner-bandy-x-lee-a9665856.html">narcissistic personality disorder</a>, which is characterized by an exaggerated sense of importance and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-observing-coronavirus-isolation-rules-unlike-president-nbc-2020-10">exploitation of others without guilt or shame</a>. "My cats could look at Trump's behavior and know that this is a narcissistic personality," Durvasula told Insider. Others have speculated that Trump may also meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder. No matter what the president's condition, <a href="https://worldmhc.org/mueller_report/">he's mentally unfit to serve as commander in chief</a>, Lee's organization concluded in 2019 after conducting a mental capacity evaluation, a common exam used to help determine whether people are fit for a task, be it leading a company or, in this case, a country.While some such evaluations might look at traits like integrity, empathy, and leadership skills, this evaluation looked only at the ability to make rational decisions. It also used evidence more rigorous than would be possible for a layperson undergoing the same test: sworn testimony from dozens of people in close, regular contact with him, documented in the Mueller report.The president failed every measure "to a level where even we were surprised to see," Lee said."It basically tested soundness of mind, and he didn't have that," she added. "So theoretically, he would not be deemed fit for any job, and there's no chance he could be fit for the presidency."<h2>US presidents aren't required to undergo cognitive tests </h2>On October 3, when Trump was still hospitalized with COVID-19, his lead physician, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doctor-sean-conley-medical-training-history-qualifications-2020-10">Dr. Sean Conley</a>, said he'd avoided answering questions about whether the president had been on oxygen because he was "trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team [and] the president."The statement revealed a truth about White House physicians: They're not just presidents' doctors — they're presidents' subordinates."Presidents make these decisions [about who to hire as their doctor] based on <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> over medicine," Matthew Algeo, the author of "The President Is a Sick Man," <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/05/world/covid-trump">told The New York Times</a>. "And there is an inherent conflict between politics and medicine."That means that commanders in chief historically get by without the type of mental-health assessments required for "highly sensitive jobs," Durvasula told Insider, like air-traffic control and toxic-waste handling. As their fields age, Lee added, clinicians and lawyers are increasingly required to pass such tests too. Even applicants of some reality-TV shows are screened using similar evaluations, said Durvasula, who starred in Bravo's "Thintervention." <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/donald-trump-cognitive-test-closer-look">The sole cognitive test Trump seems to have taken, and in his words, "aced"</a> in 2018, is a 10-minute early-dementia screening tool on which people with full-blown Alzheimer's often score a 30 out of 30, and those with schizophrenia score in the normal range, Lee told Insider, adding: "It is entirely irrelevant when it comes to mental capacity."<h2>Trump's hospitalization was a chance to give him a thorough psychiatric evaluation</h2>The president's recent hospitalization seems to have been another missed opportunity for professionals to investigate his mental state. And yet, when pressed by a reporter about whether the president was experiencing any neurological side effects while hospitalized, Conley said no, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/920502368/transcript-doctors-say-trump-will-continue-treatment-from-white-house">pointing to Trump's tweets as evidence</a> that he was mentally "back." <div type="image" title="conley" height="2680" width="4020" msid="78796908" hostid="261"></div>But Trump still isn't "out of the woods," to use Conley's term, when it comes to how the virus may have affected his cognition in the long term. The country isn't out of the woods either, Lee contends: Trump's reign, she says, has infected his followers, not just with COVID-19, but with mental instability. "One of the greater dangers right now is when a severely mentally impaired person has been in a position of influence for a length of time, then the person's mental symptoms become <a href="https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/shared-psychotic-disorder">contagious to the public</a>," Lee told Insider, citing violence, delusions, and paranoia continuing to build among Trump's followers."You don't wait for them to turn around," she said. "You fix the situation promoting the pathology." That means removing Trump from power, <a href="https://worldmhc.org/great-danger-to-the-nation/">her organization contends</a>."We urge our fellow citizens to support [our] demand that a man clearly mentally disturbed and demonstrably unfit to lead our country, be removed from power or otherwise be restrained."Editor's note: This article has been updated to remove reference to John Gartner, a psychologist who has misrepresented his goals and training when speaking out against President Trump.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-maskers-are-new-anti-vaxxers-threatening-public-health-coronavirus-2020-7">Anti-maskers are the new anti-vaxxers</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/people-are-experiencing-adjustment-disorder-as-lockdowns-end-2020-5">People are experiencing 'adjustment disorder' as lockdowns end and society reopens, a psychiatrist says</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-patients-and-survivors-suffer-from-panic-attacks-anxiety-2020-4">Coronavirus patients are suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. Experts worry the psychological effects could linger.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-hospitalized-covid-patients-like-trump-have-neurological-symptoms-2020-10">More than 80% of people hospitalized for COVID-19 suffer neurological symptoms, from confusion to altered brain function</a></li></ul>

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