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Discussing COSMETIC SURGERY With HLA's Agustín Valverde on Moody In The Morning
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Oct 29, 2024
🎙️ Join Moody for an exclusive look into the world of plastic surgery at HLA Hospital San Carlos! 🏥 In this insightful interview, we chat to the director David Vanyo and delve into the most popular surgeries with Plastic Surgeon Dr. Agustín Valverde. Discover the personalized patient experience and more. Like and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more insights from BayRadio Spain, and follow us on Social Media: Website: http://www.bayradio.fm/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BayRadioInSpain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayradiospain/
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have guests in today and important
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guests that do real work unlike some of
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us around here let's talk um plastic
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surgery which is right it is the right
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term to use we'll come to that in just a
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moment but um we're talking to our
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friends from HLA San Carlos which is a
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big group isn't it there what I see 38
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centers 18 hospitals 20 medical centers
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but um where where about e let's talk to
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David first David B uh and you kind of
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director of what's your title sorry yes
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good morning I'm the Dr Deano I'm the
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head of the internal medicine department
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and I'm part of the Mar Medical Hospital
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in San Carlos okay is this that in Dena
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on the Costa Blanca yes yes okay okay
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yes all right so how's it going now I
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mean it's been if we're talking medical
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centers the last maybe three or four
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years obviously with covid and that
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lingered for a long while it's kind of
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coming back as well how are you coping
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how's it going there okay of course we
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can read in all the news about the high
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sense of respiratory problems infections
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like covid flu in during in the last
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week we continue with the the same
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problems and in San Carlo we have the
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same problem okay but we try to provide
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the best care for all the patient in the
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hospital with more professional more
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doctors more nurs okay to try to give
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the best care for all the patient yeah
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because that came back in as law that um
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we have to wear a mask inside a health
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center yes of course in the hospitals
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and all the medical center we need to
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put the mask again and the most
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important is repeat to the vaccination
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for the flu and covid okay because we
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are on time yes is that of year of
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course yes yes yes so did that ever
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really go away were you just you know
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freefor all or were people still wearing
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masks inside the yes Hospital yes very
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important okay and the people know okay
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and all the people is with the mask yes
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very important okay so into 2024 then uh
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what are you what are your plans for the
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Cent okay the plan is to continue with
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the last last in San Carlos okay I
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repeat they provide the best care for
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all the patient with the more
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professional the best doctors that we
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can we can try and for example last
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weeks we have a new vascular Sergeant
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who is more specialities in the
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treatment of baricos vein with the last
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and newest treatment without surgery we
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have uh from the Dermatology Department
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we have a new unit for Alopecia and hair
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loss I think it's very important for a
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lot of people and for example in
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hospitals and Gallos we are building a
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new Intermediate Care unit for those
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patient with serious problems like heart
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attack pneumonia ITC I think a lot of
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people knows about the the hosal hosal a
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hospital I think is a homely hospital
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and I think it's the sumary for San
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Carlos okay continue working for all the
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people yeah I mean from what you've just
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mentioned there just covering just about
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everything so from serious conditions to
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maybe you know more sort of cosmetic
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procedures and surgical procedures yes
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yeah yes should we get on to that then
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let's talk to Austine shall we yes okay
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so this is Dr AG B morning coming up
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morning let getting nice and close on
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there we can hear you now you're um a
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plastic surgeon I'm using the right term
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aren't I because I said to you do you
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use do you call yourself that or is it
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cosmetic surgery what's the difference
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well we we like to um we are plastic
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surgeons aesthetic surgeons and
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reconstructive surgeons we never use
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cosmetic surger uh surgery well here in
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Spain we don't usually use it in in in
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other countries it's more frequent uh
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but uh we are PL surgeon that's it okay
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um so this would be you use the word
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whose phone is that you got
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some
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I don't mind this because you're are
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doctors you're medical personnel so so
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sorry no you're taking time outs from a
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working day here so this is that's
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understandable um so what sort of um
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procedures are we talking about then uh
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yeah we perform here in hospital um H um
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this San Carlos we perform a lot of
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breast surgery that's our the the number
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one surgery that we perform we do breast
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left and and breast commentation and
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breast reduction those are the the three
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main procedures that we perform and then
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we do a lot of face face lifts and Bop
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plasty and autoplasty those are the
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surgeries that we mostly perform okay
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and you'd get um what would see for want
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of a better word foreign foreign
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patients coming to see you yeah we have
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a lot of foreign patients yeah we we
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have um mostly most of them are from the
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UK right yeah and some of them they have
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um they have a house here and they they
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live in in the UK they come here they
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use and they perform the surgery once
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year they are here and some of the
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relatives that come with them and
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perform the surgery with us here yeah we
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have a lot of patients from other
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countries and not only from the UK we
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have from Germany we have from friends
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and yep and Switzerland yep and you can
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I presumably speak to most them in most
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of them with in their language yeah yeah
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we
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well there's somebody that can speak
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English just a little bit and I have a
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secretary that is from Newcastle so it's
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easier wow yeah so you're probably
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easier to understand than the person
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from Newcastle no don't tell them I said
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that all but um so most of it is is
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again I want to use the word cosmetic
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but it's it's for you know enhancement
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rather than emergency yeah we perform
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mostly Aesthetic Surgery yeah that's we
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okay and um how do people know you know
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your qualifications and that you're
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you're certified to carry out this work
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before going to the consultation most of
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them they they research in Google and
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they check who who am I and and there's
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a very easy place to check what um to
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find if the surgeons you're you're going
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to have the appointment is a plastic
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surger or not you go to the Spanish
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societ plastic surgery uh website and
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then you can see it and once you arrive
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you only have to ask for the title it's
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very easy and that's very important
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because there are some surgeons that
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they are not plastic
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surgeons uh they are perform in plastic
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surgery that's very important um and I
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think it's got generally I mean your
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your your centers particularly but um
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generally Spain has a good reputation
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for medical procedures isn't it we it's
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been a country in our in my speci
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speciality that we been
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always um we work very hard and we we we
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are quite famous for plastic surgery one
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some of the uh most important plastic
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surgeons have been in Spanish and we
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have a great relationship with South
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America and North America so we we we
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travel and the level of plastic surgery
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here in Spain is very very high more
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more than people think and the research
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as well I mean new research been carried
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out all the time yeah that's true they
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are we have here very very large centers
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of plastic surgery and they they they
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research a lot it's yeah it's a it's a
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great country for plastic surgery and do
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you get I I forget what the term is now
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that they use like medical tourists so
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people would rather come here and be
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treated than maybe their home country
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yeah uh the medical Trea that we have
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now is what I told you before as some
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people that um they have relatives here
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they leave here so they come they stay
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at the home they do the surgery and they
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go back yeah we we have a lot of those
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patients and um it's not so frequent to
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have patients that come just for the
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surgery they leave they don't have any
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relationship with our country or no
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that's not it's not turkey no it's not
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turkey that's right and we don't like to
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have those patients well we like to have
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patients but not those type of patients
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because it's very difficult to have a a
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relationship to to know what happens
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after the surgery to take care of them
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sure I mean because there there is the
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bit e the side isn't there there the
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initial consultation which is probably
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you know very important part of it how
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long you sort of sit down with them and
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just say you know what do you want and
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you are you sure you want to do this and
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do you really want to go that big uh
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yeah well well the first consultation
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they come to our office so we have we
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use the mobile for a first consultation
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then they come here and but for for us
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the most important thing is to take care
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of the patient after the surgery because
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the surgery probably is the easy part of
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the of everything then you have to take
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care of them them to be sure that
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nothing happens and if everything
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happens the patient is under control and
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he and the patient has your mobile phone
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and she's close to you and you have to
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take care of him that's the most
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important thing for us not the surgery
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the post of the surgery sure but
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presumbly they'll need to come back in
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person occasionally as well right so as
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far as English speaking patients then I
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think you may have touched on it already
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what's the most popular what do they
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come to you for the most the most in
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demand surgy uh nowadays we have um 20
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20 25 30 years ago the the the breast
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surgery with implants uh started very
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high and very fast nowadays we have
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patients around 60s 55 60 65 that they
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need to change change their implants
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because the implants can fail they have
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there capsule contractors so we have to
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change those implants we have to take
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care of those implants so we change
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those implants and then we reconstruct
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or not we because we can do a press lift
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at the same time or a press reduction
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they gain weight over the years so
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though that that's probably one of the
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the the the challenging and the number
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one surgery that we are performing
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nowadays um we have a lot of that type
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of age here in this area M and then face
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lift and pleer plastic the Aging of the
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face and the Aging of the implants
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because the age you get older the
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implants get older yeah sure and of
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course okay if we're talking faces this
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is not um the sort of just the massage
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that you're actually surgery we're
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talking plastic surgery okay so sort of
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around the eyes we remove the excess of
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skin of the eyes the wrinkles and the
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the the backs the fat we have here
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um and then we can do we do the face
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lift we remove the excess of skin we
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Elevate all the structures of the face
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and the neck to have a youthful
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appearance okay well leave your number
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with
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me we need to get in touch with you very
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soon indeed and um yes so patients
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living in the UK come to Spain to be
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operated by you um and how many how many
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you there is it just yourself what's
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your team like well I work with my wife
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s black surgery San 2 and we work
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together we go to the theater we have
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the consultations together yeah we work
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together yeah okay is there such a thing
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as a waiting list or would you be fairly
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quickly if someone wanted to inquire
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like now well the sooner the better if
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you want we have like a couple of months
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of waiting list right y y we have a
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couple of months but these surgeries is
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not something that you do when you waake
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one day and you decide to do a face left
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is something that you have been
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considering it for for months or even
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years so before you do the surgery I
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mean it take time you have to be sure
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what you're going to do where you're
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going to do who is going to perform you
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the surgery so uh most of the patients
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come six to seven months six eight
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months before the surgery they have time
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they give you the budget we give you the
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the budget so the the they know
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everything before so um in a couple of
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months we can prepare the surgery for
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the patient okay and I mean it might
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because you have these centers across
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across Spain it might not be that it
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close by uh where you're based but for
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that sort of procedure maybe it's worth
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the worth the journey or would they
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would you say go to one of the other
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centers yeah we can
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yeah you'd rather they come to see
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you um all right so anything else we
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need to add while we're here just about
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um anything else for 2024 just the
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contact details I suppose what's the
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best way to to get in touch the main
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website you go to the website of the San
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Carlos Hospital in Denia and then there
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you have the the phone number you can
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email call and it's it's easy yeah sure
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so it's a groupo
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h.com and then you can you can have it
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in English as well so should should you
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need to yeah all right well thanks ever
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so much as I say we may may see you
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again very
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soon thanks thanks you coming in this
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morning because we'll get back to it we
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know you're very busy for our friends
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from the ell San Carlos in Dan this is
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