Turkey with the good hair

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Turkey has become the hair transplant capital of the world. And it's part of a global boom in medical tourism. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Top view of a scalp after hair transplant surgery. Photo by ridvan_celik/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you seen people on social media talking about going to Turkey?
0:03.3	I'm going to Turkey, baby.
0:06.5	Thoughts on people going to Turkey for these hair implants?
0:10.5	Very, very good.
0:11.5	Okay, we like that.
0:12.7	Turkey is really, you know, I'm not a big fan of medical tourism.
0:17.0	I was on Nightline talking about medical tourism, the dangers of medical tourism.
0:21.4	But turkey and hair transplants, they know what they're doing.
0:24.3	There are five reasons why I chose Turkey for my hair transplant.
0:29.0	Reason number one is, of course, price.
0:31.5	Turkey is one of the cheapest places you can go to to get your hair transplant done.
0:35.3	Every single I know has gone to Turkey.
0:38.5	To get the transplant.
0:40.1	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:40.9	Like, Rupal has this euphemism for dying, say, you know, so-and-so has left for Paris.
0:46.4	And I say, well, she's gone to Turkey.
0:48.7	Men are going to Turkey, and they're not going to see the hyac Sophia.
0:52.4	We're going to look into what's going on in Istanbul, Istanbul on Today Explain.
0:59.8	Amazon One Medical presents painful thoughts.
1:04.6	I could catch anything sitting in this doctor's waiting room.
1:08.2	A kid just wiped his runny nose on my jacket.
1:11.3	And the guy next to me,
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