IT should have been a routine operation: a knee arthroplasty for an elderly man that would have cost about $15,000 and kept the patient off his feet for perhaps a few weeks. There would have been some small risks of complications, but in a high- standard health care environ ment such as Australia, it should have been simple.But the patient — perhaps frustrated by the prospect of being put on a waiting list or unwilling to face the full cost of undergoing the procedure at a private facility — decided to travel to India for the oper ation. It was a decision both he, and his doctors, would come to regret.Instead of enjoying a quick trip up the waiting lists,...
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