Originally Posted by alabbasi

Medical tourism is now big business. A friend of mine went to Brazil to have gastric bypass surgery and lost what appears to be 2/3 of her weight. She then went back a couple of years later to get everything nipped and tucked away so that she doesn't look like a human sail.

It cost her many thousands of dollars to do this in Brazil which she paid out of pocket, but it would have cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the same surgery in the US. She always had a pretty face but now she's very attractive.

There are obvious risks, but I have to admit that this surgery has transformed her health and her social life. She's a much happier person now then she was when i first met her. I can't really fault her for doing it, even though I tried to talk her out of it when she initially told me what she was planning.

I don't think that this is India's fault, if doctors weren't dishing out antibiotics for every little ailment, then there would be no super bug.