Americans travel abroad for crucial surgery

November 16th, 2008 By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

Before getting two artificial disks to ease the grinding pain in his back, Wayne King asked prospective surgeons where they trained and how many disk replacements they had done. Then he flew to Malaysia for the operation.

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  My wife had a hip replacement done here in US and was out of work and hurting for months. My friend has paid for his former wife's hip replacement surgery in Poland ($25,000.00). She was back in US and working in less than a month. Wow.
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