What we ask you for, and why
Eight weeks of preparation looks like paperwork. It is mostly the work of finding out, early and cheaply, whether you should be doing this at all.
People arrive here expecting the hard part to be the treatment. In practice the hard part is the eight weeks before it, because that is where the honest conversations happen and where most of the reasons to stop turn up.
The file
We ask for your medical records, an ECG and a liver panel arranged where you live rather than after a long flight, a complete medication list, and the name of a clinician in your own country who is willing to see you afterwards. That last one surprises people. It is the item most likely to be missing, and it is the one that decides how the twelve weeks after treatment go.
Nothing in that file moves to a provider until you approve the release, in writing, item by item. If you decide at week seven that you would rather not, the file stays yours and nobody else ever sees it.
The conversations
Two calls with the coordinator who stays on your case, plus whatever else it takes. We ask what you have already tried, what happened, who is at home, and who is going to notice if you come back different. We ask for a named family contact who knows the dates and has our number. People resist that one and it matters more than almost anything else on the list.
The part nobody advertises
This is also where we tell you if you are not a candidate. Sometimes that is a hard contraindication and there is nothing to discuss. More often it is timing, or an unmanaged medication, or a home situation that would make the twelve weeks afterwards impossible. We say so at week eight rather than at the door, and we say it to your face rather than passing you to somebody with a looser filter.
Our preparation fee is refundable on the terms written into the handoff, less third-party costs already spent on lab work and imaging. No provider is introduced and no dates are held until that handoff clears.