[2ndDivisionVet]

Mexico for elective surgery? Yeah, what could go wrong?

[Boogieman]

“I didn’t realize I was really taking my life in my hands the way I was when I went down there,”

Anyone too stupid to realize that when they cut your torso open your life is always at risk is begging for the Darwin award.

[Terry Mross]

You have to purchase these air bags that wrap around your legs. They’re electric and they come off and on during the night. It prevents blood clots in the legs.

[SanchoP]

Lisa Hubbard was lucky. The same surgery put my aunt in ICU for over a month and I don't think she's done with rehab a year later.

Dental work,OK. Prescriptions,OK but NEVER,NEVER,EVER trust a Mexican with a knife in his hand.

[jazminerose]

Going out of the country for cosmetic surgery is extremely popular. Some people get good results. Some horror stories.

[sockmonkey]

A few years back, a FReeper died following weight loss surgery. She had her surgery performed in Houston, IIRC.

[perez24]

I look for discounts in travel, eating out, groceries, household items, etc. Going cheap on medical stuff might not be a good idea.

Also, with gastric surgery, I think the average person gains about 50% of their weight back so it seems like kind of a rip off.

[Stevenc131]

On the other hand my wife had a very bad experience with orthopedic surgery here in the U.S. After a severe bacterial infection (which the surgeon was slow to recognize) she spent nearly 7 weeks on IV antibiotics. It took her 18 months before she was back to normal as far as walking.

My sister had serious complications after ‘simple’ gall bladder surgery, she had to have two follow up surgeries, again here in the U.S. with an experienced surgeon.

[rrrod]

What’s mexico?

[Moltke]

It’s cheaper in Mexico, but once you’re back across the border a stowaway bursts out of your stomach.

[oincobx]

>>>Yhe average cost of weight loss surgery in the United States is about $14,000, and insurance doesn’t always cover it.Hubbard found doctors in Mexico who would do the surgery for $3,800, which also includes the stay and medications.

See how much money we can save if we go to a free market.in medicine.

[HotHunt]

Excuse me, but how can people be so stupid?

Hey, let's leave the country with the greatest health care in the world and go to a third world hell hole of a country to have surgery.

I mean, what could go wrong?

[Atomic Vomit]

A general rule of thumb which has served me and mine well over the years:

If you can’t drink the water there, don’t go under the knife there.