This is but the latest in a long line of high tech toilets from the Japanese who seem highly obsessed with this particular set of bodily functions. When I was in Japan almost 20 years ago, you could go to the Akihabara electronics district and find any number of computerized toilets. I don't think I would want to trust the tests from this toilet over official lab test, however.

An interesting further question about this syndrome is how it affects the brains of this with the condition. Does it impede an individuals ability to recognize differences in people by race or does it affect the comprehension of things being dangerous?

Though medical tourism does offer significant savings, the problems come when there are complications in country or when the patient has already returned home. All of a sudden, the costs can rise dramatically and the doctors here have to figure out what was done abroad and what went wrong. It can be both dangerous and costly.