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Re: surgery's getting expensive

🔗Paul Erlich <paul@...>

9/30/2002 4:41:08 PM

--- In metatuning@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Did y'all know that certain kinds of surgery at UCLA medical center
can cost
> $1.5 billion dollars?
>
> Yes, with a 'B' as in Boy-Howdy.
>
> I kid you not:
>
> http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=20732
>
> I wonder how it all itemizes out? I'd be hard pressed to come up
with a way
> to spend that kind of cash on an operation.
>
> - Jeff

that's a typo -- i've seen it elsewhere as $1.5 million.