Jeff Schult

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Two Words: "Tiger" and "Woods"

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Books are in Transition

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Chapter 5: Researching Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Chapter 4 is a wrap …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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End of the cosmetic surgeries list

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Body Lifts, Butts and … Labias. Yep …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Breastworks, arms, tummies, etc.

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Eyelids, Foreheads, Noses, Peels …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Prisma Dental in Delta Sky magazine

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Cosmetic Surgery and prices, U.S. and Abroad

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Sex for World Series Tickets?

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Ashley Madison article on yourtango.com

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Chapter 4: Better than I remember. ;)

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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The Media Imprimatur on Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Origins of the Term "Medical Tourism"

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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The World Bank and Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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A New Smile for a Patient from Ohio

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Pioneers of Medical Travel

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Chapter 3: Medical Tourism History

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Top 10 Things Women Want In Men « DateDaily

Jeff Schult Oct 15, 2009, 10:28 am
The No. 1 thing that a woman wants in a man is that he "gets" her. The checklist goes out the window when a woman feels understood.
Jeff Schult Oct 16, 2009, 10:14 am
Yes, all different ... which is at least part of the fascination.
And to understand someone all the time would be boring, maybe even creepy.
But a little bit can go a long way, yes?
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Cosmetic Surgery Prices, U.S. vs. Abroad

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Sex Journalism 101

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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If you can't beat them, join them

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Louisville: Too sexy for its politicians

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Dr. John Corey and Brazil

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Talking to Doctors Around the World

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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American Doctors and Medical Travel

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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'Dirty Money' on CNBC: Inside High-End Prostitution

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Sticks and Stones and Common Ground

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Cosmetic Surgery in the Dominican Republic

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Pole dancing in the News …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Medical tourism sensitive to media coverage

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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And Now, 9 Minutes of Infidelity

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Celebrity Sex Scandals … Who Can keep Up?

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Chapter 2: Quality and Costs in Medical Travel

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Medical Tourism and Wikipedia: A Moving Target

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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More Medical Tourism Hype Debunked

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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How Many Medical Tourists?

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Dear Dr. Telma Rubinstein …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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So what do you mean by 'slut'?

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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U.S. Healthcare and Spiraling Costs

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Medical tourism, globalization and the ongoing debate

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Top 5 Medical Travel Destinations: Turkey? Yup!

Jeff Schult Sep 25, 2009, 5:38 pm
It is a credible destination, from a standpoint of quality of care. But there is a difference between it being a *quality* destination and a *popular* one. I've seen nothing to indicate that U.S. residents in need of medical care abroad are choosing Turkey in increasing numbers.
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I skipped a page …

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Publishing a Book and Literary Agents

Jeff Schult Sep 24, 2009, 9:29 am
Most reputable publishers rely on agents as a filter and rarely (or never) accept unsolicited, unagented manuscripts any more. This reflects changes in the publishing industry over time.
Jeff Schult Sep 24, 2009, 5:56 pm
Um, thanks. Asterisk to my post -- I'm going by what my agent and editors have told me, which is a pretty small sample size. :-)
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Things change. They just do.

Jeff Schult posted an article on - 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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Jeff Schult is the author of Prisma Dental Blog

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