Americans travel abroad for crucial surgery
November 16, 2008 By Carrie Peyton DahlbergBefore 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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