Off Shore Plastic Surgery

This afternoon, we just saw a patient who had complications from an abdominoplasty done in the Dominican Republic. Today, the New York Times is reporting a series of infections in just such patients - those going offshore to obtain cut-rate cosmetic surgery. Sure, complications happen everywhere. But some of the outcomes that I've seen from off-shore surgery demonstrate very unusual complications that are more a reflection of incompetence than bad luck or bad protoplasm.