Care for sick foreign tourists at the American Hospital of Paris.

More and more foreign tourists are being treated at the American Hospital o f Paris. The main reasons for this are the presence of a 24 hour medical and dental emergency service, in addition to the availability of MR1, CT scan and comp rehensive laboratory facilities. The hospital is multidisciplinary where short stay hospitalizations are the rule. English is the second most commonl used language. There is a permanent Japanese language service for Japanese patients. Qualitative data is presented concerning the management of patients accordi ng to specialty and nationality American and Japanese patients admitted to the hospital in 1997 are surveye d according to their mean age, reasons for admission and appropriate specia lty as well as mean length of stay noted. The greatest number of hospitaliz ations in decreasing order and according to nationality are as follows. Ame rican, Japanese, Moroccan, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian. The consultations and hospitalizations of Japanese patients between 1990 an d 1997 are compared.