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jss @ March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For the record, I’ve never talked to anyone from this website that’s quoting me. (Update 3/25: The article is no longer there … but I’ll leave this post alone otherwise.)
It’s a pretty harmless quote. I might have said it to someone. It might even be directly from Beauty from Afar.
They don’t say anything about why [...]
jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]
jss @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Prisma Dental Blog is up and running. It’s a site that I think, over time, will do a lot to inform people who need major dental work about the option of having it done in Costa Rica. I do not often get directly involved with recommending specific overseas medical facilities but I make an [...]
jss @ February 14, 2008 # One Comment
Medical travel continues to garner considerable media coverage. News 14 Carolina did this story yesterday; I post it in part because I’m included in the interview. They’ve got the before-and-after shots of my teeth in there as well, from 2004.
jss @ February 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I claim no prescience as to whether Microsoft will succeed in taking over Yahoo, and there are far too many zeros in the number $44,600,000,000 for me to have an idea of whether it’s a worthy offer for shareholders or not. I’m befuddled, often, just by the range of prices available to me for [...]
jss @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I haven’t written much about writing and I don’t think I will. Every once in a while, though, I get a glimmer of insight into how and why I do what I do.
I have a book to write, I am pretty sure of that right now. And so there is writing to do.
And there is [...]
jss @ January 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Globe and Mail, the newspaper of record in Canada with a weekly circulation of something like two million, leads their travel section today with a big article on medical tourism. Dave McGinn does a nice job looking at the phenomenon from the Canadian perspective, and I’m not just saying so because he interviewed [...]
jss @ January 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Professor Milica Bookman, author of Medical Tourism in Developing Countries, has reportedly backtracked on whether Cuba is ready to step to the forefront of countries that offer low-cost, high quality medical care to international patients, after a visit to Havana.
I say “reportedly” because I haven’t talked to Milica myself, though we are email acquaintances; and [...]
jss @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m doing research for my next book, which I’m not ready to write about yet though I have been contemplating that I might sort of ease into it at some appropriate point in time — which isn’t now, so I’m going to have to leave you guessing as to why I was searching The [...]
jss @ January 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When Beauty from Afar first came out, I was afflicted with Amazon Sales Rank Syndrome, a phrase I apparently just coined because a Google search for it finds nothing, nada. ASRS sufferers have mood swings linked to the mysterious ups and downs of how their book is doing according to Amazon, as measured by Sales [...]
