Here's another one. With a combination of beach body/club culture, senior citizens, hip hop video producers, and a precipitous wealth gap, Miami is a booming cosmetic surgery market. It has more...
Miami is an international destination for healthcare. Procedures are supposedly performed to U.S. standards, but it's also common to find non-U.S.-trained doctors practicing without licensure here. Then, there are situations like this. The "same-day", ambulatory surgery nature of most of these procedures means that visitors and doctors can easily combine surgery with sunshine vacation time.
A perfect body is marketed as an aspirational consumer good, never mind the cost, pain, suffering and risk of death. There are billboards everywhere for these clinics, with their offerings of weird cosmetic or anti-aging procedures not seen elsewhere - "cool-sculpting", various stem-cell treatments, instant eyelifts, miracle fillers, vaginal rejuvenation... And I've seen the grotesque results on women around here - drooping Quasimodo snarls from sloppy Botox injections; lumpy lips; truly unfortunate asymmetrical "junk in the trunk" from badly done butt-lifts; misplaced breast implants, like bolt-on shelves.
I'd like to see a ban on the Brazilian butt-lift procedure altogether. People would riot over the use of a chemical with a 1-in-3,000 risk of causing cancer; the idea that healthy women would be subjected to this risk of death is appalling. And that's if the procedure is performed by skilled physicians.
Here's another one.
With a combination of beach body/club culture, senior citizens, hip hop video producers, and a precipitous wealth gap, Miami is a booming cosmetic surgery market. It has more plastic surgeons per capita than any other U.S. city.
Miami is an international destination for healthcare. Procedures are supposedly performed to U.S. standards, but it's also common to find non-U.S.-trained doctors practicing without licensure here. Then, there are situations like this. The "same-day", ambulatory surgery nature of most of these procedures means that visitors and doctors can easily combine surgery with sunshine vacation time.
A perfect body is marketed as an aspirational consumer good, never mind the cost, pain, suffering and risk of death. There are billboards everywhere for these clinics, with their offerings of weird cosmetic or anti-aging procedures not seen elsewhere - "cool-sculpting", various stem-cell treatments, instant eyelifts, miracle fillers, vaginal rejuvenation... And I've seen the grotesque results on women around here - drooping Quasimodo snarls from sloppy Botox injections; lumpy lips; truly unfortunate asymmetrical "junk in the trunk" from badly done butt-lifts; misplaced breast implants, like bolt-on shelves.
Florida has legislative corruption problems that make the state a uniquely suitable venue for medical fraud and malpractice. Deregulation and cuts in state enforcement funding created a caveat emptor situation for unwary consumers.
There are direct ties between these clinics and the Florida legislature, both in person and through reliable campaign contributions.
Lax enforcement by the Florida Medical Board and loose rules on continuing practice by doctors under threat of discipline have created another booming industry: malpractice lawyers.
I'd like to see a ban on the Brazilian butt-lift procedure altogether. People would riot over the use of a chemical with a 1-in-3,000 risk of causing cancer; the idea that healthy women would be subjected to this risk of death is appalling. And that's if the procedure is performed by skilled physicians.