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"SJ Doc" <SJ_Doc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sf6bj157c5v4eun9ukndg9b965eko9cg46@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:17:00 -0400, K@.not wrote:
>
> A truss is of little or no value, and I do not recommend
> it. If your friend is willing to do a decent job of "prepping"
> himself for surgery, I suspect that any teaching hospital's
> general surgery service would be happy to take him on
> through the outpatient clinic. Surgical residents (not
> students!) generally welcome uncomplicated inguinal
> hernia cases in order to fulfill their requirements for
> board eligibility. Just make sure that the chief resident
> is one of the guys scrubbing in on the case, and that
> you get it done within the first six months of the calendar
> year.
>
This patient will still need to be admitted, his care supervised by an
attending physician. It won't be free, or even cheaper. Certainly not in the
sense that you can get a cheap haircut at a barber college.
HMc
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