Can a hair transplant change your life? And who is the angel of liposuction? The TV documentary-maker has gone to Harley Street – and there’s nothing she won’t ask the people she meets at the heart of private medicine
The unusual directness of Vanessa Engle’s questions often disconcerts her interviewees. You see them pause for a millisecond, considering how to respond, assessing whether the question has crossed a line of acceptability, and then galvanising themselves to reply.
“Are you a hypochondriac, Alex?” she asks a financial consultant as he lies on a magnetic mattress, wired up to a drip, receiving an intravenous vitamin infusion. “Do you ever think it could be the emperor’s new clothes?” she asks a woman who has just paid £130 for some vitamin supplements and a muscle treatment for exhaustion, as the camera focuses on a jar labelled Holy Basil Extract. “Do you ever think: actually, this is not important and I should go and found an orphanage in Romania or fight for world peace instead?” she asks a woman who is concerned about how her arms are ageing and is contemplating bingo-wing surgery.
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