External knee replacement removed after patient says he cannot pay for it
Thursday, May 9, 2013 @ 10:12 AM
A PATIENT from Llíria (Valencia) has 'borrowed' a replacement knee from another man after the Arnau de Vilanova removed one they had just fitted to him because he could not afford to pay. Adrián García, 23, had an arthroscopy last Tuesday and an external knee replacement was carried out to keep his leg straight and immobile while his own knee healed. But nobody had told him he needed to pay for the operation and he was surprised to be given a bill for 120 euros when he came round from the anaesthetic. Two days later, the head of the orthopaedic firm involved turned up at the hospital and told Adrián he would need to pay 152 euros, of which the regional health authorities would refund him 122 euros...
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