Originally Posted by quiet

sure. i broke my ankle hiking in the summer of '04. i was traveling back and forth between Vancouver to Montreal every other week for business. well, after the fracture, that triggered a pulmonary embolism, and i almost died. i was in Montreal at the time, and had to spend an entire month in the hospital. then after that, i was in a medical clinic once a week in Whistler for half a year for blood tests, and physio therapy. cost = zero. i can't imagine how much that would have cost in the states.