Book excerpt: Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, written by the world's leading spokesperson on international health travel. Impartial, extensively researched and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully culled from hundreds of resources in the US and abroad. Healthy Travel Media has teamed up with the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council to produce the Patients Beyond Borders Malaysia Second Edition, featuring leading international hospitals and clinics that offer nearly every imaginable medical procedure--at 50-80% savings over US healthcare costs. The 240-page guidebook offers an in-depth overview of Malaysia's most-frequented international hospitals and clinics, nearby recovery and guest accommodations, and area travel information. Located centrally between Singapore and Thailand and with some of the best healthcare in Asia, Malaysia receives visitors from more than 90 countries throughout the region and the world. Prices for procedures in Malaysia are on par with popular medical travel destinations of India and Thailand. Malaysia's favorable climate and English-speaking culture attracts medical travelers from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.