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		<title>Cosmetic Surgery Prices in the United States vs. Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 Page 9 &#124; Prices in the United States and Abroad Consumers who consider going abroad to save money for cosmetic surgery, dental work, or any other kind of medical care, will hear these bromides, either from voices in their heads or from well-meaning friends and relatives: You get what you pay for. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Dr. Rubinstein &#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 Page 6 &#124; Dear Dr. Rubinstein &#8230; When I contemplated traveling abroad for dental work, it took me a month of research on the Internet before I was finally ready to make a direct inquiry. A month &#8212; and that was just to feel confident about choosing a country from which I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 Minutes and Medical Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 Page 2 Fast forward to April 2005, a year later. My phone rings in Connecticut, a little too early. &#8220;Did you see 60 Minutes last night?&#8221; the voice asks. I hadn&#8217;t, actually; instead, I had been sitting in a gymnasium in West Haven listening to my son play clarinet with his high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition for the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Page 5 &#124; Seeking Beauty from Afar: How I Got My Smile Back Competition for the United States The new context emerged out of the Far East and spread from government officials and hospitals to business journals. In India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other countries, medical tourism was not a fad; it was a business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nose Job in Iran?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Page 3 &#124; Seeking Beauty from Afar: How I Got My Smile Back A Nose Job in Iran? I first focused on the bigger picture, which was plastic and cosmetic surgery in Costa Rica and elsewhere, and soon found myself swimming in a sea of Internet message boards. Mexico &#8212; was it safe? Had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction: Seeking Beauty from Afar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Schult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Page 1 &#124; Seeking Beauty from Afar: How I Got My Smile Back Stumbling upon an open secret I became a &#8220;medical tourist&#8221; in the early spring of 2004, when I traveled to Costa Rica for major dental work I could not afford in the United States. I use the term medical tourism, with [...]]]></description>
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