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>A routine colonoscopy came at $19k

$80-300 in capital of Poland when going full private. Its crazy than not everyone in US is combining medical/dental procedures with Euro/Asia vacation yet.

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Totally. $19K sounds crazy. Even if you have that money, what it’s like one or two months of salary there in SV for a well paid engineer.

You could go to Germany, Spain, France, and get a decent colonoscopy at a decent private clinic for what, less than a thousand perhaps.

Also, the quality of service is top notch. Not just the procedure execution but in private dental clinics (in Gdańsk) you lay down on a bed and there's a sizeable OLED screen at the ceiling with slow-mo clips sporting waterfalls, beaches, mountains and other "nice views" you'd expect from a deep house music clip. The background music is elevator-like though.

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