Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Dec 2, 2009, 2:05 pm
Apparently, Tiger having sex with other women was not part of the initial deal. Apparently, anyway. We don't know what the deal was; it could have been the traditional "Keep it in your pants from ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Dec 1, 2009, 2:01 pm
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 ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 22, 2009, 4:03 pm
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 muc...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 20, 2009, 9:29 am
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...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 15, 2009, 1:42 pm
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 ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 14, 2009, 2:26 pm
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 relativ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 11, 2009, 3:58 pm
In my summaries of the cosmetic procedures and surgeries that many people go out of country for, it looks as though in 2004-2005 I was working from head to toe ... the last sections being mostly about...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 5, 2009, 4:32 pm
The posting of Beauty from Afar resumes this evening with more of my laundery list of cosmetic surgery procedures that many people have done abroad at considerable savings.
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Prisma Dental Blog - Nov 3, 2009, 10:45 am
Prisma Dental is featured in the November issue of Delta Sky, the in-flight magazine of Delta Airlines. Writer Abby Ellin did a great feature: Passport // Medical Tourism: Health Care Goes Global ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Nov 1, 2009, 11:27 am
As such, the information I gathered in 2004-2005 is probably just about as relevant now as it was then. Surgery prices have no doubt risen for some, declined for some and stayed about the same for oth...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 29, 2009, 1:49 pm
Maybe police spending a little too much time on Craigslist ... Related posts:Sex Workers: Craigslist Makes Us Safer When law enforcement says it is doing something to protect...Craigslist.com Clo...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 28, 2009, 4:27 pm
I have a lengthy article about the Ashley Madison Agency published today at YourTango.com: Adultery Benefits Women? A Case For Ashley Madison The article is excerpted from a preliminary chapter ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 28, 2009, 2:57 pm
I've mostly resisted the journalistic urge to step too far outside the boundaries of the book, but anyone interested in the business of medical tourism ought to go read Brendan Borrell's Reute...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 26, 2009, 7:21 am
I've often been asked if real healthcare reform in the United States would be the end of medical tourism, and the answer is no. Medical tourism and international medical care will remain less cost...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 23, 2009, 2:55 pm
The earliest references I found for the phrase "Medical Tourism" were in 1998, as noted in today's segment.
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 22, 2009, 12:53 pm
Our little history lesson continues today with a segment about how a plastic surgeon in Costa Rica started marketing to the U.S. market in the early 1980s; and continues with a discussion of a somewha...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Prisma Dental Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 3:05 pm
Not all before-and-after photos are equally dramatic, but all the work done by Drs. Cordeo and Rubinstein reflect their equal concern and care for each patient. Lisa's smile was perhaps not so bad...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 20, 2009, 7:33 pm
In Beauty from Afar, I refer to Dr. Prof. Ivo Pitanguy of Brazil as perhaps the father of both modern cosmetic surgery and of medical tourism.
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 17, 2009, 2:44 pm
By now, anyone reading along has probably figured out that I had no intention of writing what might have amounted to a directory of international medical services. Others, most notably Josef Woodman w...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 15, 2009, 11:51 am
Anywhere in between? Whether in the U.S. or abroad, cosmetic surgeons are getting more creative about marketing to patients and that means, often, that patients have some bargaining power when it come...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 13, 2009, 2:59 pm
There aren't enough sex columnist jobs out there for all these kid sex columnists coming out of school. And there *should* be. Newspapers are dying, in part, because they have almost no relevance ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 13, 2009, 11:54 am
When I first walked into the waiting area of Dr. Suarez's office, his assistant asked me what procedures I was interested in ... and it was the first time anyone ever suggested I might need (or at...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 12, 2009, 1:12 pm
An ad campaign that depicts Louisville, Kentucky as a place where one *might* find a single woman with a tattoo on her derriere, or where someone might possibly have fun for longer than a dose of Viag...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 12, 2009, 11:15 am
Dr. John Corey, an aesthetic plastic surgeon in Scottsdale, Arizona, was kind enough to write the foreword for Beauty from Afar. I found him on the web long before I asked him if he would do that. The...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 9, 2009, 3:27 pm
For Beauty from Afar, I got to talk to doctors and surgeons. Lots of them. And they are a fascinating bunch. In today's segment: Chapter 2 Page 6 | Point, Counterpoint ... I compared and con...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 8, 2009, 9:01 am
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released in April 2005 what amounted to an acknowledgment that medical tourism exists, in the form of a briefing paper that got some media attention. T...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 7, 2009, 10:34 am
I got lucky last night … I was channel surfing, which I rarely do, and stumbled upon CNBC’s report: Dirty Money: The Business of High-End Prostitution … which was surprisingly non-sleazy, non...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 7, 2009, 9:57 am
Patients take risks. They sign a lot of papers before undergoing surgery in which they acknowledge risk. They do their own part to minimize risk by informing themselves about what to expect; by prepar...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 6, 2009, 1:56 pm
Today, we continue the short saga of the U.S. and its media vs. cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic in 2004. Chapter 2 Page 3 | A warning lives on, mostly unheeded
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 5, 2009, 6:07 pm
And somehow, from there, we end up over at PoleRiders.net: "Ahh ... pole dancing. It's everywhere you want it to be." Related posts:Is Pole Dancing Wrong? Is pole dancing wrong? Some feminist...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 5, 2009, 11:31 am
As I have noted, however, the story was short-lived and in this particular case, may have done more to publicize the availability of inexpensive cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic than it did...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 4, 2009, 1:31 pm
So if I happened to be in Woodstock, N.Y. today, I'd be at the Woodstock Film Festival, where I could see the world premiere of Mickey Breitenstein's Stooge. Related posts:Extramarital Se...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Oct 3, 2009, 1:50 pm
I like to think that one of my qualifications for writing intotemptation.net is my developing quasi-fearless "Been There, Done That" demeanor. But I've never had sex with a family member OR the sp...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 3, 2009, 11:20 am
As someone who has spent a lot of years in a newsroom, I didn't take any fiendish glee in pointing out the shortcomings of reporting. I am only too aware of how difficult the job can be and how ha...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 2, 2009, 1:58 pm
There is almost nothing worse in journalism or argument than using bad statistics, or using good statistics badly, and it is done all the time.
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Oct 1, 2009, 3:07 pm
Anyway -- Chapter 1 of Beauty from Afar is now posted completely. It is in 9 online pages, rather than the 18 in the printed version of the book. I do have to add the end notes to the chapter but have...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 30, 2009, 11:39 am
I used the *T* Word -- Trend -- in the segment of Beauty from Afar that I just posted. Editors just love trends. They love to turn good stories into stories about trends. And I am a little guilty ther...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 29, 2009, 1:03 pm
Most medical travel is regional. Americans are not lined up to go to the Far East for new hips or heart valves. Numbers that suggest otherwise should be looked at very carefully.
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 28, 2009, 9:52 am
But anyway, going to Costa Rica for dental work was also a life-changing experience for me, because, besides getting my smile back, better than ever, I never would have gotten to write Beauty from Af...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Into Temptation - Sep 27, 2009, 1:22 pm
Now, I have rarely been indiscriminate in my choice of sexual partners. I have always had standards, even at closing time in my drinking days. But "casual" or "random"? Ummm. Guilty. I'm all in fa...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 27, 2009, 10:17 am
The two main components of the equation, in determining whether medical tourism makes any sense for an individual, or as part of a system of health care, are quality -- and cost. It is a relatively si...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 26, 2009, 1:06 pm
Big research companies talk about medical tourism being worth many billions of dollars, with many more to come. They are right, though their methodology is often deeply flawed and even laughable. But ...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 25, 2009, 4:21 pm
The 60 Minutes show in 2005 that featured Bumrungrad International hospital in Thailand did much to legitimize medical tourism in the United States. It spurred more serious journalistic coverage of t...
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Jeff Schult posted an article on Beauty from Afar - Sep 24, 2009, 10:45 am
Didi Carr Reuben used to call her web site for Dr. Alejandro Lev, her cosmetic surgeon, terminallyvain.com ... which was meant tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at her own beautiful self. It is now eternall...
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