The Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) wants to lure what it describes as “high-spending overseas tourists” seeking medical services to Australia.
Are they going to cover the costs of travel and additional surgery for follow-up and problems? Good follow-up particularly after large scale surgery can avoid problems. These are amongst the items that people don’t tend to consider.
There is also the tendency for patients who price shop to assume that surgery is the same when you go from surgeon to surgeon. It isn’t. As usual it is “buyer beware.” Just be careful.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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Mindy,
Art classes? Do you think that would make a difference? It is more a matter of philosophy. Patients go to plastic surgeons with their own desires regarding outcome. Surgeons vary regarding how much time they want to spend informing patients about downsides of any choices as they do not want to risk “losing the case.”
The point of this piece was really that the govt in Australia is getting into the surgical tourism business which seems a bit funky. Thanks for your comment.
Having spent most of my life in California I have plenty of friends who have had plastic surgery. I can assure you there are so many bad plastic surgeons in our own country, there is no need to warn people about surgeons abroad. I would guesstimate that 8 of 10 surgeries that my beauty crazed friends have had in California and other parts of the country, has worsened their condition and simply look bad. Most of us have lost our regard for plastic surgery due to all the bad results coming from it.
I don’t know why surgeons don’t focus more of their time taking art classes and perfecting their artistic skills since this clearly seem to be in shortage with many surgeons, who otherwise have very high medical skills.
Australia is not a third world country and for sure surgeons will not be worse or better there than here.