October 22nd, 2004 - Open Knowledge — LiveJournal
Oct. 22nd, 2004
06:48 pm - Get Tough! How to win in hand to hand fighting.
Get Tough! How to win in hand to hand fighting. by W.E. Fairbairn. As taught to the British commandos and U.S. Armed Forces! Great line art.
07:22 pm - India draws 'medical tourists'
Via Slashdot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6293825/
India draws 'medical tourists'
Cheaper health care a powerful attraction
John Lancaster / The Washington Post
Howard Staab, shown here with his partner Maggi Grace, traveled to India to undergo surgery to corret a faulty heart valve.
By John Lancaster
Updated: 1:51 a.m. ET Oct. 21, 2004
NEW DELHI - Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000 -- an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance.
So he outsourced the job to India.
Taking his cue from cost-cutting U.S. businesses, Staab last month flew about 7,500 miles to the Indian capital, where doctors at the Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre -- a sleek aluminum-colored building across the street from a bicycle-rickshaw stand -- replaced his balky heart valve with one harvested from a pig. Total bill: about $10,000, including roundtrip airfare and a planned side trip to the Taj Mahal.
"The Indian doctors, they did such a fine job here, and took care of us so well," said Staab, a gentle, pony-tailed bicycling enthusiast who was accompanied to India by his partner, Maggi Grace. "I would do it again."
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