I’m standing at the front desk of a large hospital next to a traffic-choked dual carriageway on the outskirts of Istanbul, repeating my name to the two receptionists: ‘It’s James…Henry James…I’m here for a Brazilian butt lift.’
But this only generates blank looks.
The Atakoy Hospital in the suburbs of Turkey’s largest city is where I have arranged to be treated by a surgeon from GMC, a private medical firm that advertises extensively in the UK offering a range of