Oct 20
In Beauty from Afar, I refer to Dr. Prof. Ivo Pitanguy of Brazil as perhaps the father of both modern cosmetic surgery and of medical tourism.
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I had originally hoped the Dr. Pitanguy would write the foreword for my book, but that wasn’t going to happen without my taking a trip to Brazil that I wasn’t able to take on my budget at the time. However, his office, in the person of Pitanguy’s then-assistant, Henrique N. Radwanski, M.D., was generous with time and information.
