Serbia Medical Tourism
What Medical Tourists Who Travel to Serbia for Surgery Abroad can Expect from the Sava Perovic Surgical Team in Belgrade

Sava Perovic's policy and that of the surgical specialists of the Sava Perovic Foundation's Surgical Team has always been to help as many people as possible with the best surgery abroad available anywhere and turn no one away — no matter how complex the surgical procedures needed, regardless of the difficulty of the surgical techniques required and no matter what age. Everyone, from toddlers to the elderly, are treated with the utmost dignity, privacy and respect.

We get a lot of international medical tourism inquiries by email and by phone from around the world and seven days a week regarding many aspects of the more than six dozen advanced surgical procedures offered by the Sava Perovic Foundation. We also have many medical tourists in many stages of treatment who have many questions about surgery abroad post-op or the road ahead.

We often work 6-7 days a week and long days. Our case manager, Richard, usually works well past midnight in an effort to answer and organize the numerous incoming and outgoing communications about Serbia and Belgrade health tourism, often until 2-3 am, even on weekends. He enables reconstructive surgeon Dr Rados Djinovic, Chairman of the Sava Perovic Foundation and leader of it's surgical team, to focus on patient care and help members of the public and new patients get the medical tourism information they need as easily and swiftly as possible.

Our primary method of doing this is proactively providing Serbian medical tourism information on our web sites about all the surgical procedures available. Our goal is to efficiently streamline the healthcare tourism process so your only questions are probably going to be:

• Exactly what surgery is appropriate?
• When can surgery be performed?
• How much will the surgery cost?
• How much will any relevant medical devices or surgical implants cost?
• And any unique questions you may have about health tourism, surgery abroad and travel to Serbia which have not already been asked by other medical tourists, answered by the reconstructive surgeon, and published on our web sites.

There are tremendous demands on the time of the case manager and reconstructive surgeons. Richard makes a sincere effort to give medical tourists prompt, precise, polite, accurate answers about Serbia, surgical procedures, healthcare tourism and facilitate meetings between Dr Djinovic and persons worldwide who want to visit Serbia and get his help. There are five things you can do to simplify, expedite and enjoy your interaction with Richard and successfully get surgery the soonest and easiest.

1. Our surgical team members speak several languages but all of us are fluent in English. Our primary written or spoken language is English. If at all possible, use English when writing to us.
2. Using a nickname, pseudonym, initials, former name, middle name, fake name or no name and only an email address (or multiple ones) makes it significantly more difficult for Richard, slows down the process, and increases chance of errors or confusion. Case files are organized alphabetically by surname. More than a few patients have the exact same name and surname. Help us help you by using your real name as in your passport in all your communications. That will enable us to maintain your medical records accurately and avoid duplication of records for the same person.
3. Be truthful, transparent, straightforward, honest and give us all the facts relevant to your case. All information you provide is given a high level of confidentiality and privacy. Please avoid being unnecessarily secretive, cryptic and mysterious.
4. There are often several surgical procedures and medical tourism packages possibly relevant to a patient. Proactively providing us with your complete medical history can greatly reduce the amount of time and communication needed to: a) evaluate your case; b) determine whether what you are requesting is suitable; c) determine which of our medical tourism packages is the most advisable solution for you and d) when it would be best to visit Serbia for surgery abroad or a consultation. It also helps your case file stay clear and coherent about the surgical procedures you want and need.
5. Email is an imperfect medium but makes modern health medical tourism possible. It's easy to misunderstand intended meaning, or think something is inferred when it is not. Mail you send may not arrive in our mailbox. Because the subject of the communications are urogenital surgical operations, it is not unusual for our email to medical tourists to end up in their Bulk, Trash or Spam folders or boxes. White list email addresses from SavaPerovic.COM as approved, genuine, acceptable messages at the same time you initially contact us. If you don't hear back from us within a reasonable period of time, check those folders, directories, mailboxes previously mentioned. If you cannot find a response, you are welcome to resend your message or write to us again.

We are on your side. We want to help. We care. We are quite open minded and non-judgmental. Our intentions are good. Sometimes we make mistakes but those are always of a clerical, administrative or logistical nature. On the medical level, the success rates and quality surgical results of the complex surgical procedures performed by our reconstructive surgeons compare very favorably with those anywhere. And our Belgrade health tourism destination management usually exceeds a patient's expectations.

Richard is an American from Cleveland, Ohio on America's northern border with Canada. He has lived most of his life in Europe and Asia and has been dealing with people of many nationalities, cultures, religions, persuasions, perspectives and races most of his life.

He has been a strategic communications specialist for more than two decades, including many years as an editor for the United Nations and time as the Southeast Asia correspondent for United Press International.

That means you will find him to be concise, frank, straightforward, truthful, open-minded and an internationally-oriented person who values your time and will try to quickly get to the heart of a matter. He will work hard for you.

You will find him sympathetic, empathetic, non-judgmental and not easily offended. When he makes a mistake he admits it.

Richard has a tremendous amount of respect for the late Professor Perovic, the Sava Perovic Foundation , and Dr Djinovic. He has zero tolerance for lies, misinformation, disinformation, slander, defamation, malice, bias, prejudice, ungratefulness or rudeness regarding them.

Surgical facilities and medical tourism hospitals in Belgrade are private, independent, moderate-sized enterprises that provide infrastructure and support services for Dr Djinovic and his surgical team.

They are the best in the country.

Most foreign embassies in Belgrade list them as approved or recommended for their citizens in Serbia, including the USA, the UK, Australia and many others.

The Sava Perovic Foundation does not own any of the surgical facilities, medical tourism hospitals or Belgrade clinic we use. Dr Djinovic influences but cannot control their policies.

Of course, they are not perfect (almost) but generally they provide an extremely good environment for medical tourists who travel to Serbia: a modern, very hygienic medical tourism hospital with exceptionally well-trained, highly-educated, friendly, polite staff who are very experienced regarding health tourism.

In real terms, if not in size, they compare favorably with the very best international medical tourism hospital, surgical facility or clinic anywhere.

In the past couple of years, a few of our medical tourists did not get as much “face time” with Professor Perovic outside the operating theater as they had hoped.

They wanted an extensive personal chat and more than his personal assurances that they were “in good hands”.

One patient grumbled that he got the impression the Professor was “in a hurry”. That was a tremendous understatement.

Sava Perovic was an acclaimed and renown VIP academician, surgeon, urologist, author, teacher and professor who was losing his secret, decade-long fight with cancer.

Any patient who had the opportunity to speak with Dr Perovic in the past decade was talking to a great man on an important mission of epic proportions but with little time.

Dr Perovic was trying to do much more than only get each and every individual patient the best quality surgical results available anywhere.

The Professor was also tirelessly devoting every moment of his remaining life and all his energy to best ensure other patients continued to get the best possible urogenital surgical results even after he passed away.

From the year 2000 onward, Dr Perovic was in a race against time and mortality.

A brilliant surgeon and visionary on par with Nikola Tesla, he knew his life was coming to a close. But was determined to complete his two-pronged mission:

1. Solidly establish the Sava Perovic Foundation to ensure urogenital surgeons everywhere could continue to get the advanced surgical training, surgical techniques and quality surgical methods they need to solve the complex urogenital problems of the hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide who could never visit Serbia.
2. Effectively transfer his legendary bag of surgical "Tips & Tricks" to Foundation Chairman Dr Rados Djinovic.

Professor Perovic did everything humanly possible to ensure that years and decades after he had passed away, his beloved patients worldwide continued to get the supreme quality surgical results he believed they deserved and his beloved medical colleagues around the globe would have the necessary urogenital surgical procedures and surgical techniques.

For the past three decades “The Belgrade Team” surgical specialists, or “Team Serbia” medical tourism services as it was called by some, has been Sava Perovic assisted by the team of top reconstructive surgeons he selected to work with him.

The heart, soul, inspiration, leadership, philosophy, genius, insight, charisma, surgical procedures, surgical techniques, surgical methods, quality surgical results, ideas, goals and ethics of “The Belgrade Team” have always been and continue to this day to be those of Sava Perovic.

In recent years, “The Belgrade Team” officially and legally became the surgical team of the Sava Perovic Foundation.

Contrary to efforts by some to put some spin on the facts, it was impossible for “The Belgrade Team” to have ever supposedly 'split up and gone separate ways' because the surgical Team has always been the brilliant surgeon Sava Perovic and his principals.

Since the death of Professor Perovic in April 2010, that tradition of great urologic surgical results is continued by the Sava Perovic Foundation led by Dr Djinovic. The Sava Perovic Foundation surgical Team is “The Belgrade Team”.

Don't be misled.

There is no other “Belgrade Team” and never was. There are only a Serbian surgeon or two who didn't have what it took to stay on the Sava Perovic surgical Team and their only claim to fame is that they managed to work with Dr Perovic for awhile.

During his 37-year career and more than 20,000 surgical operations, Dr Perovic worked with thousands of surgeons of every level and caliber.

The many truly great surgeons who worked with Dr Perovic are great in their own right (see the notable doctors who sent condolences when Dr Perovic died) and do not need to try and bolster their image among medical tourists by claiming to have once worked with the greatest urological surgeon of our time and the greatest surgeon ever produced by Serbia.