Hot Spot for Health

Taiwan’s high-tech hospitals attend to increasing numbers of medically minded travelers.

- DEBRA BOKUR

LOCATED OFF THE EASTERN coast of mainland China, Taiwan’s popularity as a medical tourism destination has, until recently, been limited to demographics from within Asia. That’s rapidly changing: Thanks to a combination of high value and low cost, this island destination shows up with increasing frequency on the radar of medical tourists from Western countries including the United States.