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Medical Second Opinion Market: By Disease (Cancer, Cardiac Disorders, Diabetes, Injuries and
Others); By Service Providers (Hospitals, Online and Offline Medical Second Opinion Providers
and Health Insurance Players) & By Geography-Forecast (2015-2020)
Medical second opinion refers to a patient’s act of requesting or seeking evaluation of his health
condition by another physician or specialist to verify and confirm the diagnosis and treatment
prescribed by the previous physician or to know an alternative treatment plan. It is primarily
sought after when the first physician recommends a complex/painful surgery or painful and risky
procedures. The other situations that propel the patient to seek a medical second opinion are
when the patients is not sure of the diagnosis or is unsatisfied with the treatment plans offered by
the primary physician or when it is required by the insurance plan or when the physician himself
recommends to go for it.
The overall global medical second opinion market is currently doing well and is on the rise, which
is estimated to rise to $3.4 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 18.2%.
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