Plastic Surgery … Malaysia
When you spend a lot of time hanging out with people in the so-called “medical tourism industry,” as I have over the last few years, it is sometimes convenient and perhaps too easy to talk about national care systems and patients in aggregate … business-plan, big-picture stuff.
I like to be reminded regularly (email is good for this) that going overseas for medical care, surgery and dentistry is still done by one patient at a time; and that every experience is different. I was cautious in Beauty from Afar, to emphasize that … everyone’s mileage will vary, as the saying goes. Obviously, I got great results when I went to Costa Rica for dental work in 2004; and large numbers of people go abroad for healthcare and are glad they did. (See this issue
of Medical Travel Today for my analysis of “how many” in the article headlined Spotlight: The Numbers Game.)
But before *you* get too deeply into the aggregate numbers, let’s pull back to just one patient … one who isn’t me, or you, either. Every once in a while, a patient takes the time to share with everyone exactly what their trip is like, as Bronwyn Shearer is doing right now in her Plastic Surgery in Malaysia blog. Ms. Shearer is a mother of four from Sydney, Australia … and she’s having a lot of work done, and holds nothing back.
Her experience was arranged by Gorgeous Getaways, among the companies I mention in my book. I was glad to read that Bronwyn was feeling well cared for.
jss @ December 19, 2007
