...according to this NY Magazine article, you can go to the Four Seasons in Miami and have it done right there

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news...26/index1.html

You mean there is a place you can go on vacation and actually come back "looking" well-rested?

I love it! This reminded me of one of my first patients as a very young nurse. I worked at a "carriage trade" hospital in SF. The call light went off. A matron in her 70's(having just had a fresh eye job and neck tuck) needed me to bend down and pick up her napkin.(Maintaining facial calm as it's called in the business). In bending down, I noticed she was wearing Andrew Geller pumps during her hospital stay.
As a young woman I only partly appreciated the whole thing. Now, some 28 years later, I love the story.

This post is for everyone who took ***muffin's*** oh so helpful hotel advice and 'scowered' the hotel lobby with their eyeballs.

What a fantastic idea for Miami doctors. The patient has a problem with the surgery and results after they return home but can't afford another trip back to Miami to have the problem corrected.

This reminds me of the beautiful carpets they were selling in Istanbul. The tourist purchases the carpet and pays for shipment back to the US. When they get home there is no carpet and no way to justify going back to Istanbul to rectify the problem. SCAM!!!

For what and where am I scowering GoTravel?

jor, anyone who goes this route can certainly afford to go back to Miami. Trust me.

Mclaure, Trust me. There are some fools who get tuck sucked into it who can not afford another trip back for any number of reasons.

I thought Phuket in Thailand was the place to go for this sort of thing. Excellent medical work(most of the doctors were trained in the US), and a tropical vacation, at about 1/3 the cost of the US.

I heard Brazil was agreat spot for this type of vacation.

mclaurie, I think we are supposed to 'scour' the lobby for criminals.

jor, this is common practice for plastic surgeons to have a set up worked out with hotels. Most hotels with spas have licensed nurses on staff just for this particular reason.

Don't believe me? Do a google search on LA, NYC, or Miami plastic surgeons, call their office, and ask who their accommodations partner is.

A doctor setting up office in the Four Seasons is just taking this one step further. Not a scam but convienience for patient and doctor and the hotel can list 'plastic surgery' as an amenity.

Now and then I think about it, especially after having Chinese food
but I always go back to the thought, what if the doctor screws up?
So I am staying content with what I have.
But I would still stay at the Four Seasons in Miami with my regular eyes

....especially after having Chinese food??? :-?

We won't recognize the criminals. They've all had plastic surgery


(Remember that old Bogart movie where he has his face changed??)

LOL, after I eat Chinese food I get so swollen from the MSG and salt that my eyelids are all puffy and I get bags under my eyes. Not a pretty sight.

Scarlett darlin, that is why God made large sunglasses! 8-)

Don't even THINK about getting on a plane until 6 weeks after! Bruising and clotting can result!As I've been told!!!!

A friend or ours' has been a tour guide for about 15 years. He tells some really funny stories about leading a yearly tour to Costa Rica for plastic surgery - for both men and women.

The first few days they do some 'touring', read this as drinking and really partying to the max, and then they have the surgery.

For the remainder of the 'tour' he is playing nursemaid (not changing dressing etc.., but more like a Nanny) to the recuperating patients, at some posh hotel.

The way he describes a room full of bandaged people, sipping through straws, mumbling in barely audible voices, "Be a dear and get me this or that, or hand me me a magazine, etc", is absolutely hystarical. He works exclusively for a LARGE tour company, and says that he sees the same tour members year after year. He said that the group tours are like a reunion, and the members compare notes about their past, present, and future surgeries. Isn't it wonderful what $$$$ can buy!

The funny thing is that he loves most of the regulars, and in their own way they have a good time and are usually good sports while recuperating. The ages vary from 30's to late 70's.

The rest of the year his tours are for 'regular' people doing the usual tours.