The high cost of total joint procedures in the US is driving patients to Medical Tourism

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A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5,000 Check (Yes, a Check) (New York Times)
Donna Ferguson awoke in the resort city of Cancún before sunrise on a sweltering Saturday in July.
She wasn’t headed to the beach. Instead, she walked down a short hallway from her Sheraton hotel and into Galenia Hospital.

Donna Ferguson, from Mississippi, traveled to a private hospital in Cancún, Mexico, to have her knee replacement in July.

A little later that morning, a surgeon, Dr. Thomas Parisi, who had flown in from W...


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