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Medical tourism: trust also depends on checking credentials
The economic discussion needs to include information about care.
Specialists at a Tijuana plastic surgery congress described patients arriving from the United States and Canada and local recovery facilities. These views reflect participants’ experience, not an audit of every clinic.
Cofepris states that specialist surgical procedures require a specialist license and current certification. It also clarifies that a master’s degree in cosmetic surgery alone does not qualify someone to perform specialist surgery.
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