Take a Medical Vacation for a Beautiful New You!
Aesthetic Medical Treatments and Cosmetic Surgery in Cabo San Lucas

By David Mandich, Medical Tourist Advisor

For a great medical vacation - visit your doctor … in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico! Here patients can get everything from aesthetic and cosmetic medical treatments such as Botox and Radiesse to plastic surgery and dental work.  Brain, heart surgery, and joint replacements, once out-of-the question here, are now becoming common procedures at hospitals and clinics that combine first class health care with recuperation at first class beach resorts.   

In Cabo you can experience the latest in laser medical treatments, strawberry margaritas at swim-up bars and pool concierges offering frozen towels.  You may even see whales and dolphins play golf on championship courses if your medication is really strong.

Cabo locals and tourist patients alike now have options ranging from affordable hospitals such as Balboa to the new AmeriMed hospitals complete with CT-scan, MRI and other high tech equipment. 

Medical Tourism is a booming business in Los Cabos as Americans and Canadians come here for elective medical and dental treatments that would cost anywhere from two to eight times as much up north.  And the many foreigners who buy first and 2^nd homes here are adding daily to a growing community that expects good doctors and facilities to be readily available just like back home. 

AmeriMed hospitals have cardiac & neurosurgeons who work in new surgery centers that are as fine as can be found anywhere on the planet.  Gastric by-pass, hip, and knee joint replacements are routinely performed here as well.  While a lot of media and public attention has been focused on dramatic plastic surgeries that result in improvement to ones appearance, aesthetic cosmetic medical treatments are often overlooked in all the fanfare.  Aesthetic medicine, the younger sister of plastic surgery, can sometimes accomplish results similar to the more risky invasive surgeries, at far less cost.

Patients seeking the latest aesthetic and cosmetic beauty treatments seek out Dra. Alma Vazquez Lomas, in downtown Cabo San Lucas.  A medical doctor practicing general medicine in Los Cabos for over 18 years, she began specializing in aesthetic medicine years ago in response to the needs of the growing number of aging foreign and local populations.  Dra. Alma, herself being in “midlife,” has to personally deal with the same aging problems that her patients do.  This gives her great empathy for them. “I use the products and treatments on myself, my friends and family” she noted in a recent interview.  “I can tell my patients from my own personal experience what works and what doesn’t.”  How many doctors can say that?

Depending on the treatment – most aesthetic treatments allow a patient to leave for home within a day or two.  Some treatments create immediate results while others may take a few days to a week for the results to be evident as in Botox.  Aesthetic treatments may only last a few months to a year or so while plastic surgery is mostly permanent if the patient takes care of themselves. 

Regarding weight loss, the Dra. promotes the Zone Perfect Nutrition and Diet Program developed by Barry Sears P.H.D.  This revolutionary plan changes people’s attitudes toward food consumption.  Food, according to this new way of thinking should be considered as a medicine for the body rather than something to curb hunger or as a means of pleasure. An overweight patient should engage in a serious program of counseling, diet and exercise in addition to medical treatments to help avoid regressing to their old lifestyle habits that caused their obesity in the first place. 

Dra. Alma says that patients often come to her to look better without surgery.  Depending on the patient’s case, surgery can often be avoided or at least delayed.  Although the majority of her practice is devoted to aesthetic treatments, she still practices general medicine, and working in tandem with an associate plastic surgeon – she can consult with patients and arrange for face lifts, bottom, breast augmentations, nose surgeries, body sculpting and more.  Using the latest laser light equipment by Light Sheer, excessive body hair can be removed (permanent depilation), on face, armpits, bikini, or legs as well as tattoos, physical peels and spider veins.

Receiving her M.D. degree at the University Autonomous National in Mexico City almost two decades ago she has also studied for her Masters in Aesthetic Medicine at the University of the Baleares Islands in Mallorca, Spain, become a Diplomat in Aesthetic Medicine, and has certifications for Botox (Allergen), Restylane, New-Fill, and Mesotherapy.  These are all high quality treatments that virtually eliminate wrinkles, creases, crows feet, smooth out scars or in the case of Mesotherapy – reduce cellulite.

Dra. Alma sees patients in her clinic several blocks off the waterfront in Cabo as well as at  Pueblo Bonitos Rose and Sunset beach resorts in Cabo where she is the house M.D.  She speaks perfect English and is well respected by her colleagues and the hundreds of  patients that she has treated over the years.

Your Cabo Medical Care vacation is only 2 to 4 hours away from most major cities in the USA at a r/t plane ticket cost of only $300-500.US.  I’ve waited 2-4 hours in waiting rooms just to see a doctor back in the States.  Not so here.  Medical Vacation patients get priority treatment in Cabo.  Gratis ground transportation, loaner cell phones, personal assistants for surgery patients and more (depending on the package) await you as well as huge savings on the cost of medical treatments.

You can learn more details about the latest aesthetic cosmetic beauty treatments by visiting: www.loscabosguide.com/cabomedicalcare.htm  Contact Dr. Alma Vasquez regarding medical beauty treatments or plastic surgery by email:  draalma@prodigy.net.mx or call: (From the States) 011 52 624 143-0774, or 143-3517, Cellular: 044 624 147-5719  Clinic Location:  Ocampo & 16 de Septiembre, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico.  Open Monday to Friday 9 am to 8 pm; Saturday 9 am to 2 pm;  Emergency – 24 hours.  AX, MC, & VS 

Article by David Mandich