Americans travel abroad for crucial surgery

November 16th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Health

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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