"Beauty from Afar" was the first book about medical tourism published in the United States, in 2006. Rather than allow the work to go out of print, author Jeff Schult is putting the whole book online, with commentary and updates as he goes.
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Not that I think "real," paper books are going away entirely, anytime soon. But there will be less of them, and more digital books. The fact is, Beauty from Afar is one of those works that would have been better as an e-book, in some future time of...
I really did have the notion that I *might* get enough of a book advance for Beauty from Afar to take a budget tour of the world's best hospitals. As it turned out, I didn't get quite that much and the advance payment mostly went for things like food...
We’re done with procedures and pricing. That’s all I’ve got, for now, anyway.
Chapter 4 Page 7 | What Else is Out There?
I liked finishing the chapter with the comments of the Indian M.D. who was elected president of the International Society of...
In the conclusion of Chapter 4, I touch briefly on what is generally called complex medicine -- no disrespect to cosmetic surgeons intended. This has to do more with treatment of disease, life-saving surgery, etc. And, of course, medical travel...
In Chapter 4, I tried to keep my list of "surgeries for which people travel abroad" down to those which people most commonly seek. Apparently I could not resist butt implants, which are still relatively uncommon ... and here one have the one, brief...
