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According to THE LINE * , Korea (presumably South Korea) is the latest fast-rising plastic surgery consumer destination, joining such popular medical tourism destinations as Thailand ( which has for years been famous for its low-cost sex-change surgeries, among others). These medical tourism hot spots are popular for their surgeries allegedly because of their lower medical costs, exotic(?) geographic locations, and "special services" for visiting patients such as resort hotel accomodations, airport pick-ups and drop-offs,, multilingual websites and guides and emails, video consultations, and other conveniences.
But, what about the legal risks when medical errors and omissions occur. Frequently, when surgical mistakes occur the foreign medical tourism patient suffers legally from the foreign countries' use of medical disclaimers, waivers , distance, and other contractual devices patient are often unaware of which give them very little legal recourse. Caveat Emptor: America's medical malpractice laws are generally not applicable abroad.
Thailand, for example, is one of the more popular medical tourism destinations that makes it extremely difficult for their patients (both Thai and foreign) to file medical malpractice lawsuits
in the country. It is also difficult in Korea --- even with it's " rising obsession" with plastic surgeries such as nose jobs (rhinoplasty), double eyelid surgeries, and jaw bone surgeries.
[www.widener.edu/globalhealthlaw/2012/medical malpractice in the medical tourism world; *www.linkedin.com/pulse/rising obsession, plastic surgery in korea/ 01-07-2015]
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