Nip, tuck and frequent-flier miles: how anything-goes plastic surgery became the latest thing in adventure travel
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Thailand has fashioned itself into the world headquarters of discount plastic surgery, even promoting "medical tourism" packages. The Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok offers amenities such as cable television to visitors. The male-to-female sex-change procedure remains the hospital's most popular offering.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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The shyness syndrome
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Shyness is being classified as a pathology since the introduction and marketing of the psychotropic drug Paxil which is used to treat social phobia. Shyness is not measurable, nor is it a medical condition.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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The bathroom where you can give yourself a daily brain scan
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Advances in self-health screening technology are expected to go down by the year 2010, allowing more people to operate their own screening clinics, probably in their own houses.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
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