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		<title>Chapter 5: Researching Medical Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 much and the advance payment mostly went for things like food and shelter.]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4: Better than I remember. ;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Reuters story, published today:

Controversial couple dominates U.S. medical tourism
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		<title>The World Bank and Medical Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[And Another Thing ...]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1995]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandre Dumas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty from Afar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 somewhat prescient World Bank report on prospects for health tourism exports in the Caribbean.]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneers of Medical Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.beautyfromafar.com/2009/10/20/pioneers-of-medical-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmetic surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivo Pitanguy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 3: Medical Tourism History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josef Woodman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medical travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 with his Patients Beyond Borders series of guides, have ably provided health care consumers with more traditional formats.]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmetic Surgery Prices, U.S. vs. Abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.beautyfromafar.com/2009/10/15/cosmetic-surgery-prices-u-s-vs-abroad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beautyfromafar.com/2009/10/15/cosmetic-surgery-prices-u-s-vs-abroad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abroad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 2]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 comes to price.]]></description>
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