If medical tourism is understood to primarily deal in elective treatments, the kinds of specialist labour in increased private demand are not perceived as a threat to health equity.
The best that can be hoped for is that voters do not opt for a kind of elective psychosis.
Interviewing Parra, in fact, became a kind of elective but important rite of passage for cultural journalists in Chile.
It is true: personnel in all four branches of the military and members of their immediate families can get face-lifts, nose jobs, breast enlargements, liposuction, or any other kind of elective cosmetic alteration, at taxpayer expense.
In all actuality, it all boils down to fear, the worst kind of elective emotions.
"If we continue to see a slight improvement in unemployment, it should translate into better outcome for bariatric procedures, and any kind of elective procedures in the U.S.," said Almeida.
While we can only speculate, breaking down the biological barriers that separate us from the beasts could lead to all kinds of elective procedures.
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has a 52 bed-ward admitting all kinds of elective as well as acute orthopaedic patients.
This overestimation of the probable improvement after TKA [ 12, 13] and other kinds of elective orthopaedic surgery [ 20, 22] has been reported before.
The position of elected mayor is simply a "magnet" for power-hungry individuals and indeed such institutions are a form of elective dictatorship which, over time, can easily result in the kind of family dynastic rule evident under more than one Mayor Daley in Chicago.
