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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Science
Ella Pickover

Patients urged to be cautious of surgical tourism special offers

Experts have issued new guidelines on obesity surgical tourism (M-Production/Alamy/PA) -

People seeking medical procedures abroad should be wary of special offers or discounted rates because such offers “raise concern about the quality of care”, experts have warned.

And patients “must not be subjected to targeted social media advertising relating to bariatric surgery abroad”, academics said.

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