[snowsislander]

Yes, medical tourism from countries with bad medical systems to other countries can be viable when service is much better or prices are more affordable.

[Kimmers]

It is only good medicine to refuse hip and knee replacement surgery on obese patients.

It is well documented that there is a greater risk for failure in hip and knee replacement surgery in obese patients.

[Old_Mil]

About 267,000 total knee replacements are performed in the United States each year. Many are performed on patients who are obese since obesity has been linked to degenerative knee joint disease. The researchers compared the outcomes of 78 total knee replacements in patients who were obese, defined as having a body mass index of 30 or more to the same number of replacements in a group of patients who were not obese. Although the success rates of knee replacement surgery are still relatively high for obese patients at 88 percent, they were still lower than that of non-obese patients at 99 percent. ...That's a fairly high success rate (88%).

[Ma3lst0rm]

I know a guy who goes to Mexico when he needs basic treatment. When you don't have insurance and common procedures cost several hundred dollars here it begins to make it worth the risk.

[A knight without armor]

How many pounds is 140 kg?

[AmericaUnite]

I know an American doctor who's dad was refused a pacemaker due to his age. His dad was a retired doctor in Indonesia (of Chinese descent). He was able to get him here alive and then had the pacemaker done. His dad had many more years.

If your over 65 your not getting open heart surgery, kidney dialysis or pacemakers in GB.

[wideminded]

Two weeks later, Rogers flew out to the Deepak Hospital, Dr Nagaraj's family hospital in Bangalore, for the first phase of major surgery - to reconstruct the knee and hip on the right side, at a cost of 10,000 pounds.

My son had an emergency appendectomy in the US, using laparoscopic surgery, which involved a total hospital stay of about 36 hours. The total charge was quite close to this.