The NHS is having to provide emergency care to rising numbers of patients suffering serious complications following weight loss surgery and hair transplants abroad amid a “boom” in medical tourism, doctors have warned. Medics said they were being left to “pick up the pieces” as more Britons seeking cheap operations overseas return with infections and other issues.
And thereby bumping other people out of their slots:
Hospitals have even had to cancel elective procedures for patients because beds were being taken up by someone who needed an overseas procedure fixed.
Whicj must be utterly infuriation. And all for vanity.
David Strain, chair of the BMA’s board of science, said more Britons were travelling abroad for procedures, but not all were getting the care they would expect in the UK.
They are probably getting better care (except for when the treatment goes wrong).
Delegates passed a motion expressing concern about patients who need emergency surgery on their return to the UK. They also called for more weight management services, to be partially funded by a rise in the sugar tax.
So everyone pays more to placate those who have no self-control?
Strain warned that the increase in surgeries abroad had been spurred on by a “social media nation” where people felt the need to present themselves in a certain way.
Why blame social media. and not the people in thrall to it?
Where these all cases of cosmetic surgery gone wrong or where there examples of people going private for operations that they were likely to have to wait years to get via the NHS?
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Rather interestingly all the fat slags one sees at the beach are covered in tattoos - maybe it's the sugar turning their skin blue.
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"...covered in tattoos - maybe it's the sugar turning their skin blue."
One or two tattoos I could understand, but some have no visible skin left!