Do you know of a good plastic surgeon in Tamaulipas, Mexico? Preferably near Brownsville, Texas?
Got any Mexico healthcare tales?
Sounds perfect for IMHO. Moved from GQ.
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This is where I live–my only comment–NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Trust me on this one.:smack:
It ain’t worth it!!!
I’m really hoping you are joking about going to tmps for surgery–seriously–this place is rife with terrorist activity. Just today, the TV station in Cd. Victoria was the victim of a car bomb–the law enforcement investigator (checking out the 70+ victims of slaughter) was killed–
My Mexican healthcare tales only have to do with dentistry and LASIK. All good. Clinica Sasha in Leon has a lot of fancy billboards, though.
If you’re not going to a proper hospital with a proper, licensed anesthesiologist taking care of you during the procedure, with at least one additional surgical assistant along with the doctor, you are taking extreme risk. Any surgical procedure that requires general anesthesia is risky. Doing it in an office without proper equipment and licensed MD’s and RN’s to use it, and without proper emergency backup facilities, is unnecessary risk to your own life.
I just watched a documentary on obesity in America, I forget the title, which started with the story of a 12-year-old girl getting liposuction. They showed the procedure - it was in a strip-mall style doctor’s office, and she wasn’t even intubated! I almost fell off my chair. I would consider that malpractice, and that was in the States.
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Balthisar–I appreciate your comment, but it is absolutely crazy and scary, here, right now. You know that the border is nothing like the interior. I would not drive over the bridge for anything right now. The media is not reporting everything that’s going on–someone that thinks it’s ok to go to tmps for surgery needs a little local input (or why are they asking!)
I hope you are joking. Why are you considering going to go to Mexico for plastic surgery? You are fine, just as you are.
Here ya go–lol! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amado_carillo_fuentes
Hellpaso, do you live near Brownsville/Matamoros? I went there several times in the past couple of months and saw no trouble but the place was empty of US tourists, in the summertime, and we saw plenty of soldiers. Everything we heard was that it was safe and the trouble was farther west. We’d just walk a few blocks over the border, take care of our business, and then straight back. It was rather spooky. I wonder if the terrorist mess is expected to end anytime soon. Okay, say I waited and all of that was over. Then do you have any advice on plastic surgeons there? P.S. Thank you for the warnings! You are right, all that I had heard was that it was all fine but that people were extra careful b/c the travel advisory was put out for a very broad area, more than what was accurate. OMG!!!
How do you know I am fine just as I am. Have you ever seen me?
Hellpaso, do you mean the bad part is the interior or the border? Also (for later) is it true that there are two separate systems, private hospitals and public and that the private ones are the good ones? Or do the private ones tend to be itty bitty ones owned by an individual doctor? I know there are large modern hospitals in Mexico but not quite sure how to locate them! Thanks so much for all your help.
Look, unlike some of my fellow Dopers, I’m not necessarily anti PS, but I am anti cheaping out and going to Mexico to go to a basically unregulated medical facility. There are all kinds of awful stories about people getting all kinds of horrible shit stuck inside of them, deadly infections, etc. in Mexico.
Why can’t you get this done in this US? Is it money? Save longer, this is your life. Is it that a doctor here wont do it? Then it isn’t safe and you don’t need it.
Mexico is a large country with many wealthy patients, fine physicians and hospitals. Its private healthcare rivals that of the US. I have had other healthcare done there just as good, much cheaper and no problems. So when people just say “don’t, it’s scary” it’s well meant but not informed. There are many medical horror stories in the US as well. I am not the type of person who doesn’t know any better than to go get a medical procedure done in the backroom of a shack.
The thing with overseas medical care is it can be very good and very cheap but you have to do your homework. Every country has a board of surgeons, medical school rankings, etc. There is a huge network of doctors and hospitals by the US border that has grown to cater to US citizens. So anyway much of it’s very modern and not backwoods but as I said, just as in the US some are much better than others and that can be a bit of a trick to sort out from a distance. I like to start with personal recommendations and then go checking credentials.
Anybody have any info. on specific Tamaulipas plastic surgeons? Thanks, all.
Hellpaso, to clarify, I guess I’m asking if you know how I can easily identify the large, modern, private Tamaulipas hospitals? It is such a pain to do this from a distance when I don’t speak Spanish. The other big thing (not plastic surgery) I had done, I saved about $25,000, but boy was it a hassle figuring it all out.
About that violence that’s getting too close to Matamoros for comfort, did it just move over that way or was it there before?
Hmmmm, the plot thickens… ;O)
Thanks Seadragon. If you see another recent post of mine, I have already had an expensive procedure done in Mexico and would never to go a cut rate place. Thank you.
May I suggest you Google some plastic surgery discussion boards? There are plenty. I’d ask my question there, if I were you. I’d imagine members here probably getting plastic surgery less frequently than the general populace and thus, have even less experience in the Mexican arena of plastic surgery. Just a WAG why you aren’t getting the answer you’re looking for.
Thanks, that’s a good idea and I will do that. 