That's the partially the problem with anonymity on the internet. Things people wouldn't say in person, they say on the internet all the time. People don't seem to take into account the other human being with similar emotions that read their negative comments. The anonymity is making us worse people towards each other. Let's say I do end up disabled, and it was my fault because I voluntarily decided to do this surgery, is that something to rejoice? Let's say someone is badly injured because they were riding a motorcycle too fast for their abilities. That was voluntary. Do you make fun of them? Would you in person?
I can be very harsh when it comes to me attacking ideas, especially on the internet. However, that's the thing, I attack the idea and rarely the person, because it shows, if anything, a lack of good argument and reflects more upon me than the person I'm trying to attack. Attack the idea of gettting the surgery in Vietnam, instead of being like "haha, you're going to be in a wheelchair and a drain on the economy that my tax dollars pay for. Haha". If Vietnam sucks, then tell me why it sucks. Have you been here? Are you going to cite things like GDP per capita, or infant mortality rate? Are you a doctor? Have you even ever left your home country before? What qualifications do you have? You also talk a lot like DrSarcastic or whatever myriad of names that person had. Are you just another iteration? Because if so, that's definitely time consuming, and pretty sad.
I get the skepticism, Vietnam is a developing country. You walk down the streets and see trash in the gutters and pollution in the river. I've occasionally been disgusted by this country before, but you know, I actually kind of like it here because I see a bright future for this country in just a few decades. Liking this country contributed to my decision to have the surgery here instead of Russia. I'm studying to be a doctor and have thus volunteered and witnessed many surgeries in hospitals all around this world, including many " craphole" countries. I can get a good feeling if a doctor is skilled or not. There are good and bad doctors everywhere, but the highly skilled doctors, even in developing countries are still highly skilled. I feel this doctor is pretty skilled. If he felt sketchy, I wouldn't have gone through with the surgery, even at a very good price. My freedom of mobility is more important than saving a few thousand dollars. So, you're still not adding anything because you don't provide new information. Like I said before, everyone here knows what's involved: breaking legs and pulling them apart. Everyone knows there is risk. What value are you providing, besides being a crapposter? If this is your thing, do you also go to transgender forums and make fun of them? How about just average plastic surgery forums? Or how about just autistic support forums, while we're at it.
I took a risk. I wasn't fully uncertain in advance the quality of the doctor I went with because I didn't see his surgeries before having it myself. However, I met a patient of his who turned out well. I saw that the facilities were good, the staff were professional, and the quality of materials were good. That was enough for me to take the risk myself, especially since the price was right. Look, I get absolutely nothing by posting good about this doctor and Vietnam. I've already paid for this surgery months ago. They're not going to pay me to advertise on some obscure forum that I'm not even sure the doctor knows exists. What I do get is some satisfaction for standing up for truth as I see it from my perspective. Knowing what I know now, I still would have gone to Vietnam for this surgery, unless I happened to be making over a million dollars per year, and that would only be so I could stay in the US/Europe to work. If the outcome is good and the price is good, that's the place I'm going to get the surgery. Even if I were making $100K per year, I couldn't justify spending the entirety of my income on a surgery that can be done with similar outcomes elsewhere for significantly less. It's just value propostion, and even if the US surgery were "only" $40k, I would still probably strongly consider going to Vietnam. Europe and the US just doesn't make good economic sense for this particular surgery, unless you're just absolutely ballerific wealthy and utterly set on using internals only. If that opinion changes, I'll truthfully let the forum know, unless I get too provoked, delete my account, and ragequit the forum entirely.
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