> Seth B Wrote:
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> It's really crazy when you look at the itemized bill, isn't it. A couple
> hundred bucks per screw, iirc. And the "donated" cadaver bone implant
> ain't cheap. Oh well, at least we're not paralyzed, and I finally got
> mine paid off.
The auto mechanic working on the fancy car of a heart surgeon said “I don’t know why you charge so much for surgery?” A heart is like a oil pump in a car and valves are like valves in a car’s heads, once you work on a these things a few times its not that hard to do,
The doctor said “oh ya, try doing it with a car you’re working while it’s on and running”
That’s a old joke though, because In all actuality my wife’s heart valve (and another parts) surgery she had last year they actually did stop everything and refrigerated her lifeless body that had no blood going through it,
They pumped blood to her brain with a oxygenated pump that they put in through the cut/severed artery and vain in her neck, then when done replacing these 14year old worn cow valve and parts:
With new valve/parts (made from human tissue) they reconnected everything up, warmed her up and to shocked her heart back to life
Just a few years ago they didn’t even pump blood to your brain they just refrigerated your whole body stopped your heart, hurried up, then restarted your heartbeat