Jorge López faced an overwhelming debt of nearly ¢200 million due to the cost of cancer treatments for his four-year-old daughter, who tragically lost her battle with the illness. Fortunately,…
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Test for Foreign Doctors to Practice Medicine in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/03/27Foreign physicians must pass a test on general medicine, to be offered twice annually, in order to be allowed to practice in the country. It’s known as an equalization exam…
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Costa Rican Trying to Find a Treatment for Cancer
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2018/11/06Costa Rica News – A Costa Rican doctor, Cecilia Monge, is exploring personalized treatments for cancer in the United States. She led a study to seek better therapies based on genetic,…
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Does Costa Rica Have a Lack of Medical Specialists?
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2018/03/14Costa Rica Healthcare – We’ve heard so many viewpoints of the medical specialists the CCSS has.