Saturday, January 31, 2009

Medical Tourism in Developing Countries

I'm currently reading "Medical Tourism in Developing Countries" by Milica and Karla Bookman, copyrighted 2007 and published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Chapter 2, "Plastic Surgery is not Peanuts: Economic Growth and Dependency" was a bit of a misnomer as plastic surgery is not mentioned for the first 14 pages of the chapter. The remaining 4+ pages does not reference plastic surgery/asthetic procedure trends, outline the most desired procedures, or the most frequented countries for these procedures or any mention of the role of medical spas in medical tourism or an overview of plastic surgeries gone wrong. Botched plastic surgery procedures were graphically represented at the MTA Congress last September with the Plastic Surgery Association raising the point of liability for physicians who assume the risk of correcting such procedures.

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