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Can anyone share their experiences in dealing with The Obesity Control Clinic in Tijuana? I am in the process of scheduling my surgery with them, but some red flags have popped up for me in regard to payment. First of all, their site states that you can make your deposit by paypal or with a credit card. I have had some bad experiences with paypal in the past, and chose not to make my deposit that way. When I tried to use the option of paying by credit card, they would not accept mine. I contacted my coordinator who then told me that they don't accept credit cards (because they have no way to do so) and that I could mail them a check if I didn't want to use paypal. OK. So then I had to write out a check, fax them a photocopy of it along with a photocopy of my ID, and then I mailed it certified, return receipt requested. Once again, I was told that wouldn't be acceptable as the check would be going to PO Box in Coronado, CA (not Tijuana) so there would be no one to sign for it. The address that was provided to me was a street address - not a PO Box. This is all beginning to feel a little sketchy to me. My family and I are making a huge financial commitment (a sacrifice, actually) to save this money in order to pay for the surgery ourselves - a task that will not be easy for us.
Please respond with any experiences you've had with this clinic - it would be greatly appreciated.
Im Glad I stumbled across your post, I plan on going to Puerto Vallarta for a vacation for my family, and while we are there, ill have my Surgery. A couple things.... did the hospital have anywhere to eat there ? or did family members have to go outside? Did you have to choose that hotel, or could you go to another hotel?
If you go to Ensenada Mexico, a beutiful place. Consider to visit the doctor Felipe Garcia H., he is a excelent doctor and has a lot of experience in bariatric surgeries (he´d me a Gastric Sleeve) and i happy now.
Can you mention where you went? New here perhaps there is a topic somewhere else for recommendations or is that frowned upon in this forum? Desperately need to consider surgery in Mexico. Thank you.
Well you can report what you want because the board as you say can not boot me off or can but have no reason to do so because I do not get KICKBACK as you say and I just do not want to keep wasting my time fighting with you for no reason. I do not know you and you do not know me. So feel free to do what you want and hope it works out for you. I dout that they are going to take me off just for talking about what a good doctor I had. That is what this is for and to talk freely about their up and down. So FEEL FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT. And until then please do not write be back. You are felling up my emails with pointless post thanks and have a good day.
please don't tell me what to do
This is what I'm wondering too. I am about 15lbs away from a 40 BMI and otherwise perfectly healthy. Just got all my blood work back today - I don't have even one problem besides being fat and being sad about it. So, my insurance isn't going to cover me. In the meantime I've been looking at Mexico and while I'm actually perfectly at ease as far as the competency of the surgeons and quality of the hospitals goes, I'm worried about complications.
What happens if I spring a leak a week after I'm back here in NJ? Sure, I can go to the ER, but I'll also probably bankrupt my family.
Well you can report what you want because the board as you say can not boot me off or can but have no reason to do so because I do not get KICKBACK as you say and I just do not want to keep wasting my time fighting with you for no reason. I do not know you and you do not know me. So feel free to do what you want and hope it works out for you. I dout that they are going to take me off just for talking about what a good doctor I had. That is what this is for and to talk freely about their up and down. So FEEL FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT. And until then please do not write be back. You are felling up my emails with pointless post thanks and have a good day.
Well I think that if I got kickback from any doctor I would know about the board rules and terms dont you think. You should think about that. And yes if I took it like that it is my problem and if I was getting kickbacks dont you think that would also be my problem as well? Go figure you just do not make any sense and you eat your own words Sorry if you take it offensive and if you do that is how you took it...
Surgeons don't own this board but they have no problem asking ppl to advertise freely on it. it. It is against the TOS, which is Terms of Service for the board. You account could be moderated if someone reports you for advertising.
Many ppl are offended by advertising.
It is a waste of my time to try to explain how message boards work to someone who doesn't have a clue.
Whatever.
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