Beauty from Afar

Your Time with Kim: Radio Interview on Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:02:19 +0000

Medical travel for major dental work, plastic surgery and other medical care continues to be in the news in the United States. On Friday evening, I was interviewed about the subject on the Your Time with Kim syndicated talk radio program.

Resuming BFA Project …

Jeff Schult — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:19:33 +0000

Obviously, I drifted away from posting pages around Christmastime. It happens. Part of the problem was, and is, that Chapter 5 is chock-full of little tables giving sample search engine results for medical tourism terms. And tables are a pain (or relative pain) to move from printed page to web page. But I’ll figure it [...]

Patient Support Sites for Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:09:56 +0000

Happily, I chose well. PSJourneys.com and ObesityHelp.com, among other web site forums for patients, have not just survived but thrived. MedRetreats remains among the leading medical travel companies.

Books are in Transition

Jeff Schult — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:33 +0000

Not that I think "real," paper books are going away entirely, anytime soon. But there will be less of them, and more digital books. The fact is, Beauty from Afar is one of those works that would have been better as an e-book, in some future time of e-book ubiquity.

Chapter 5: Researching Medical Tourism

Jeff Schult — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:03:18 +0000

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.

Chapter 4 is a wrap …

Jeff Schult — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:40 +0000

We’re done with procedures and pricing. That’s all I’ve got, for now, anyway. Chapter 4 Page 7 | What Else is Out There? I liked finishing the chapter with the comments of the Indian M.D. who was elected president of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2005. Dr. Naresh Trehan has been [...]