Health Overseas

EMS in Ecuador is like Forrest Gump’s Box of Chocolates: You Never Know What You’re Going to Get! What I’ll say may not be comforting, but it could save your life.…

[dropcap]My[/dropcap] wife and I moved from Canada to Latin America at the end of 2011. While we really appreciate many things about Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Argentina, we ultimately decided…

We have been in Ecuador long enough to know that the only thing that is consistent here is the inconsistency in practically everything a person can experience. My recent ordeal…

Healthcare in Ecuador Examining Your Norm As a teenager in the 1960’s I could go from one end of the U.S. to the other and find communities and even whole…

If you are thinking of moving to a community that is significantly higher in elevation than you are used to, there is a lot to consider. Health issues for ‘lowlanders’…

When we first arrived in Cuenca in 2012 we were advised by Gringos that the prudent thing to do was to get health insurance. We were always covered in the…