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About that last Wisconsin possession? Lots of differing opinions
CBS Sports college basketball studio analyst Greg Anthony called the Wisconsin vs. Syracuse game Thursday night in Boston the best-played one in the NCAA tournament to date.
Both teams executed their game plans at extraordinarily high levels. Each team turned the ball over only six times.
The game came down to a final possession by Wisconsin, which was a point down and had the ball with 15.5 seconds left.
The Badgers could not manage to get the ball below the foul line during the possession and could not get a clean look for a shot. Jordan Taylor hoisted a deep contested three and missed. Josh Gasser, who had no time to turn and face the basket for a good shot, snagged the loose ball and heaved up a miss with 1.3 seconds left.
Jared Berggren was at the scorer's table waiting to get into the game. Coach Bo Ryan elected not to use a timeout to set up a play or get Berggren into the game.
Seems everyone has an idea of what did or didn't happen, or what should or shouldn't have happened, on that last possession.
Here's what some of the basketball experts on television and radio had to say:
- Game analyst Bill Raftery (CBS), over two replays of the possession: "The strategy was to stay up as tight as tight as you can. The magic at the end not quite there for Jordan Taylor. The kid played so well. Did not get a perfectly clean look. (Gasser) never really got turned around. But the aggressive D but the 'Cuse on the perimeter a big-time factor in that miss. . . . The three-quarters turnaround, never got those shoulder squared."
- Studio host Greg Gumbel (CBS) after the game: "If you thought Roger Goodell came down hard on the Saints, wait'll you hear where these guys come down on that last Wisconsin possession. . . . . What happened to the Badgers? They are a better coached team than that."
- Analyst Greg Anthony (CBS): "They are well-coached. I was thinking about and going through my mind what happened. For me, Bo Ryan trusted his senior to make a good decision down the stretch. Fifteen seconds left. That's a lot of time to and opportunity to get a good look. But keep in mind this ball never got below the free throw line. Maybe with seven or eight seconds you think about calling a timeout. But that's such a difficult situation. Tough way to lose for Wisconsin. I don't know if they could have played any better with the exception of that last possession."
- Analyst Kenny Smith (Turner): "The last possession was something that you would want better. But I just I thought two things took over. Nerves and lack of ball-handling ability. Great shooters on Wisconsin. But not great ball-handlers. So if you look at Syracuse, every time they got shot off penetration. So even though they were hitting threes, you had Scoop Jardine, you had (Brandon) Triche early in the game, and obviously Dion Waiters, are driving in, so when the kick out there were a lot of three from that area, but Wisconsin, when they get their threes from Jordan Taylor of Jared Berggren, those threes come from passing, not dribble penetration. So when you can't make a play down the stretch . . . Pass the ball. Move it. Pass it. Move it. Oh, we can't get a shot off. There's the difference. . . You don't have to call a play to make a shot. You have to make a play to get a shot. Don't call it. Three's not going to work. The three play you are running is not going to work. You have to make a basketball play and Syracuse has basketball players who can make plays."
- Analyst Charles Barkley (Turner): "Wisconsin had a perfect game plan. They moved the ball. You can't move bodies as fast as you can move the ball. They got a great shot pretty much every time down the court. Did they make more threes than they normally did? Of course they did. . . . . They got nervous. I'm not sure if they if had any timeouts or he would have called a timeout with four or five seconds to go. He should have. You could see when those two guys came toward (Taylor), they were in trouble at that point. . . . It's easy to get shots against a zone when you are moving it. But they didn't have anybody who could just say here's the ball, go get it."
- Anthony: "It's funny. They shoot (52%) from three. But to your point, they didn't have shotmakers or playmakers because they were only 7 of 22 from two. So that shows they really don't have the ability create and facilitate for themselves. That has to come from their offense. The problem for you is at the end of games, often times your offense will not be able to get you a shot. You have got to have somebody with the ability to make the play. That was the difference in this game. It's rare you say this, but the two beat the three. Because Syracuse's ability to get two-point shots at will – they had so many playmakers on offense get to the rim and make a two."
- VCU coach Shaka Smart (Turner): "Syracuse is in their zone. Very, very aggressive. Wisconsin wanted the ball in Jordan Taylor's hands. That's who had the basketball. He got it back late here. Syracuse just did a terrific job keeping him on his heels and not allowing him to get a great look."
- Analyst Steve Smith (Turner): "I thought when number 33 caught the basketball, which is Rob Wilson, I thought he should have kicked to the corner (to Josh Gasser) for that open three."
- Smart: "There is no question that (Wilson) could have gone and got in the lane. But, again, it's kind of like the replay of Michigan State. You want your best player taking that last shot. You can't fault Wisconsin at all for getting the ball to Jordan Taylor. It just didn't go down for him. I thought Syracuse did a really good job of being aggressive early in the possession so that it put Wisconsin on their heels."
- Analyst Seth Davis (CBS): "What was surprising to me was it seemed as if there was a little disorganization or confusion from the Wisconsin bench at the end. As Wisconsin was inbounding the ball from their own baseline, Bo Ryan sent Jared Berggren to the scorer's table, like he was trying to get him into the game. At that point Berggren has got 17 points, six for seven, three for three three-point range. And he and Jordan Taylor had been running that pick-and-pop game. Had found those gaps. But he did have a timeout, so it was one of those things that kind of unfolded. I was just a little surprised, Shaka, if he wants the kid in the game, why not call a timeout and make sure he gets in the game?"
- Smart: "Tell you what. There are 101 things going on in your mind at that point. You say he could have called timeout. He could have done this. But you are just trying to put your team in the right frame of mind. Maybe he didn't want to confuse them or ice them at all by calling another timeout. Maybe he wanted to let them go play."
- Barkley: "He (Wilson) has got to make a play toward the basket. They have a two-on-one advantage on this side. He has got to make that play. But when he passed the ball out here (to Taylor), now the shot clock is on their back. That was the play right there where the play broke down. The kid just was not comfortable making a play. You can't pass that ball backwards. You can't pass that ball back to him and give it to him at half-court with four seconds to go. If he makes that move to the basket, that his going to force the defender to come toward him and he is either going to get a layup or a wide open shot in the corner."
- Analyst Mateen Cleaves (CBS Sports Network): "They shot the ball well, but I thought they should have penetrated more at the end to try to get Syracuse off balance. The last two shots were two tough shots, but that's easy to say when you're just watching the game."
- Analyst Wally Szczberiak (CBS Sports Network): "When they were down three with a minute to go, I thought they should have gone a little quicker then, instead of running the clock down and getting fouled. After Syracuse missed the free throw and Wisconsin was down one, any time you're down you have to try to extend the game and get a shot quicker. I can understand holding for the last shot when the game is tied, but holding for the last shot when you're down one doesn't make any sense."
- Analyst Doug Gottlieb (ESPN): "Shouldn't Bo Ryan call a time out when you have 15 seconds left, to set something good up? . . . That was awful. . . . He has a timeout. What is he saving it for? You are down only one point. The correct way to attack is go get a quick shot. If you are fouled, you get another possession. Or at least run something. The ball never got inside the arc. That was awful. That was poor execution, poor planning. . . . That clearly was a breakdown."
- Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg (ESPN): "You read the situation. . . . Are you at an advantage or disadvantage? Quite honestly, Wisconsin was at a disadvantage. . . . You want to give yourself a chance to get to the offensive glass and maybe get a put-back. But they really didn't probe the defense. Once they saw they didn't have the advantage, I was a little bit surprised that Bo didn't call a timeout."
- Former Illinois coach Bruce Weber (SiriusXM Radio): "Taylor usually makes those shots. Most of the time he goes left, pulls up and hits three. He has to have the most shots with five seconds on the shot clock as anybody in the country. He had one, but he was going right this time, and he is just not quite as effective."
- Former Manhattan, Villanova and Massachusetts coach Steve Lappas (SiriusXM Radio): "(Ryan) decided he was just going to go attack. I don't blame him. His team is like a machine anyway. He wasn't going to tell them anything that they weren't already doing or had been doing for 40 minutes in that game. I don't blame him for not calling a timeout."
- Analyst Jay Bilas (ESPN Radio): "They are playing against a defense that they don't often play against. In a situation where you have to go get a shot, you don't have a lot of plays that you run against zone that can get you a shot in a short clock. You could come up with a ball screen and get something better than they got. They certainly didn't get a good shot at the end."
- Villanova coach Jay Wright (ESPN Radio): "That end of the game situation speaks to both teams and both coaches. Most coaches at the end of the game are going to go to man to man. They want to identify Taylor, not let Taylor get the last shot. Jim Boeheim sticks with that zone. He believes in it. . . . Bo Ryan runs a very systematic offense. It shares the ball. Everyone knows at the end of the shot clock, they are going to go to Taylor. He's the guy who is given the freedom to make a one-on-one play. Syracuse's two guards did a great job of getting the ball out of his hands. . . . He threw it to (Wilson) and that guy was open to make a play. But in their system, he's got to get it back to Taylor at the end of the shot clock. They couldn't get off a good shot. Both teams went with what they believe in and it worked for Syracuse."
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- Actor Bill Murray explains his abiding connection to the game of golf
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Troopers responded to Gerber Memorial Hospital in Fremont Saturday night (Jan 11th) at the request of Child Protective Services (CPS) to investigate serious injuries to a child. The baby was brought to the hospital by her mother after she observed injuries that occurred while the child was left in the care of her live-in boyfriend. Medical evaluation showed that the child suffered three (3) broken ribs and significant bruising to the head, face and abdomen. Doctors identified the child's injuries as being the result of abuse.
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You can review our 2013 preseason Top 25 here.
No. 22: Austin Seferian-Jenkins, TE, Washington
2013 numbers: Seferian-Jenkins caught 36 passes for 450 yards and a team-high eight touchdowns.
Preseason ranking: No. 13.
Making the case for Seferian-Jenkins: To understand Seferian-Jenkins' talent and value to the Huskies, it's important to look past his receiving numbers, which were down compared to his first two seasons at Washington. The 6-foot-6, 276-pound specimen is an elite blocker and was an important part of teammate Bishop Sankey's 1,869-yard rushing season. Where Washington chose to utilize his receiving skills was in the red zone, where he caught eight touchdowns -- second nationally among tight ends. Despite being named to the All-Pac-12 second team, Seferian-Jenkins was honored as the John Mackey Award winner, given to the nation's top tight end. He is Mel Kiper Jr.'s top-ranked tight end prospect in the upcoming NFL draft.
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Devolution: Getting Back to the Simple Life
As we have seen already in this series, evolution can occur via horizontal gene transfer and epigenetics, both of which add information to a life form by non-Darwinian means -- that is, not by natural selection acting on random mutation of the genome.
The information added by epigenesis and horizontal gene transfer is not random. For example, assume that male parents' alcoholism is consistently associated with disrupted patterns in children's genes. The effects of excess alcohol, far from being random, are a predictable, law-like chain of chemical cause and effect. Similarly, bacteria don't randomly share antibiotic resistance via horizontal gene transfer. Rapid development of resistance among whole colonies is a longstanding, law-like pattern that maintains a colony's ecology, a pattern recently traced back to millennia before humans began to develop antibiotics.
Today, we often hear that these non-random mechanisms of evolution are consistent with Darwinian evolution (the Modern Synthesis). So, nothing has really changed after all!
Not so fast. Darwinian evolution (Darwinism) had better be consistent with all demonstrated mechanisms of change. Unlike horizontal gene transfer, it has proven difficult to witness, and proponents have relied largely on the assumption that it is "the only known theory that is in principle capable of explaining certain aspects of life." What's changed is that it can no longer be considered equivalent to "evolution." It must compete with other known mechanisms.
Most of the time, when we think of evolution, we mean mechanisms for the growth of complex new information. After all, entropy (the tendency for disorder to increase over time) can satisfactorily explain loss of information. Yet, in the history of life, some forms survive while -- or even by -- losing information (devolution). Their history may tell us something useful too.
We all know devolution when we see it -- a jar of pennies becomes a doorstop, a computer becomes a boat anchor, the XYZ volume of the Encyclopedia props up a too-short table leg.
But interest in devolution of life forms spiked with the recent discovery of giant viruses, which a 2014 editorial at The Scientist considered a possible fourth domain of life.
The giant mimivirus for example, unlike conventional viruses, "carries many genes thought to be unique to cellular life, suggesting that it evolved from a cell."
If so, strictly speaking, it "devolved" from a cell. Information was lost, not gained. Perhaps the unicellular life form was unable to survive intact, but some remnant survives as a virus.
New Scientist announced in 2011 that, "World's largest virus proves giants came from cells." The idea is a reasonable one, though some, including National Geographic, now think that giant viruses preceded cells instead. We don't really know as yet.
The viruses have, however, infected researchers with incorrect thoughts. A discoverer of a giant virus encased in ice for 30,000 years observed (2014):
"We thought it was a property of viruses that they pack DNA extremely tightly into the smallest particle possible, but this guy is 150 times less compacted than any bacteriophage [viruses that infect bacteria]. We don't understand anything anymore!"
Didier Raoult, the discoverer of giant Marseillevirus said, provocatively, in 2009, "The idea of a common ancestor makes no sense in the light of viruses. That was Darwin's idea, but he was clearly wrong." Raoult, also the discoverer of the mimivirus (2003), considered "the most productive and influential microbiologist in France" according to Science, published a pop science book in 2011 that "flat-out declares that Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong."
Well, here are some things we can be reasonably sure of:
-- Sometimes, devolution offers an apparent advantage. Many plankton microbes eliminated the genes for producing key vitamins, and now outsource the function. One account suggests, "... most of the time, the fitness advantages of smaller genomes and lower cell replicating costs offset the potential fitness gains that would come from vitamin manufacture when the required nutrients are in short supply." Similarly, while functioning cell walls are thought to be critical to life forms, we are told that many bacteria can switch to a cell wall-deficient "L-form" state, "completely resistant to many antibiotics," and possibly ignored by our immune systems.
-- Similarly, some researchers believe that the Amanita mushroom group has devolved to a successful parasite on trees by losing the genes associated with breaking down cellulose. It's possible that the Amanitas were crowded by ground-level competitors and devolution enabled them to exploit a new niche.
-- Sometimes, however, the advantage is not clear. A brain part, the anterior sclerite, present in arthropods of 500 million years ago, is no longer extant. It is thought to be linked with bulbous eyes, but without further information, it's impossible to say why it is apparently no longer required.
-- Similarly, the Cambrian shrimp's heart (520 mya) was more complex than the modern one: "The level of complexity of the Fuxianhuia was extremely high, considering that we are studying some of the oldest animals on Earth." A 305-million-year-old harvestman (spiderlike arachnid) fossil has two sets of eyes (pictured above), but current descendants have one functional pair and one vestigial pair, apparently without suffering any adverse effect. But we would need to know much more than we do about the history of life to know why decreasing complexity was neutral or advantageous in each case.
-- One devolved amphibian is visually almost indistinguishable from an earthworm. Similarly, a newly discovered blind, legless lizard is described as having "evolved to live underground," though again, that should really be devolved.
-- Sometimes a pattern emerges. A study that investigated evolution in nematode worms, including the strain that survived the 2003 Columbia space shuttle crash, shows that under artificially stressed lab conditions, the worms all lost the same gene.
In some cases, particular aspects of Darwinian evolution have proved false by discoveries of devolution. One Darwinian doctrine, called Dollo's Law, formulated about 1890 by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo, states that a trait once lost cannot be regained.
No one seems to have told the life forms about it. For example, researchers were surprised to find one creature:
... in the aquifers beneath the Western Australian desert, which challenges the traditional Darwinian view of evolution. They have discovered that a species of blind predatory water beetles -- living underground for millions of years -- express vision genes (opsin) which are usually only found in species with eyes.
Losses can be reversed. Blind Mexican cavefish are considered an excellent model for studying evolution, with revealing results. In the lab, researchers have mated blind cave fish from separate and distant underwater caves and produced sighted offspring. Apparently, separate mutations had produced the blindness, and some hybrid offspring inherited a mix that includes enough genes for functioning sight. So no irrevocable devolution had taken place after all.
We are told that, with "dwindling evidence for the law-like nature of Dollo's Law" opinions are reversing because "large genomics databases and evo-devo studies are showing how the underlying developmental pathways and genetic architecture can be retained after the loss of a character."
Evolutionary biologists still have an odd relationship with devolution, to judge from items in Scientific American over the last two decades. First, we encounter obfuscation:
From a biological perspective, there is no such thing as devolution. All changes in the gene frequencies of populations -- and quite often in the traits those genes influence -- are by definition evolutionary changes.
Another misconception is that increasing complexity is the necessary outcome of evolution. In fact, decreasing complexity is common in the record of evolution. For example, the lower jaw in vertebrates shows decreasing complexity, as measured by the numbers of bones, from fish to reptiles to mammals. (Evolution adapted the extra jaw bones into ear bones.) Likewise, ancestral horses had several toes on each foot; modern horses have a single toe with a hoof.
This approach doesn't quite make sense. It fudges the fact that loss and gain of information are not the same thing. Loss needs no explanation other than entropy; gain requires new sources of complex, specified information.
Even writers in the same publication seem to contradict themselves about the existence of devolution. In 2012, a Scientific American blog reported on a new study that argued humans are devolving so as to be dumber: "Homo (Sans) Sapiens: Is Dumb and Dumber Our Evolutionary Destiny?"
Gerald Crabtree, a biologist at Stanford University, has put forward a provocative hypothesis that our cushy modern existence -- absent the ceaseless pressures of natural selection experienced during the Paleolithic -- makes us susceptible to the slow creep of random genetic mutations in the 2,000 to 5,000 genes needed to ensure that our intellectual and emotional makeup remains intact.
Others, we were told, disagree with Crabtree: The social world we live in is complex, so "we haven't in fact lost the selection process that kept the pressure on" to remain intelligent. But if Darwinian natural selection both produces high intelligence, and is needed to sustain it, why did it work only once, for humans? And does anyone really believe that social rejection today is the same as the life-and-death struggles of the Paleolithic?
In 2014, Scientific American, on a more serious note, informed us, with respect to those blind cave fish:
In the classic view of evolution, organisms undergo random genetic mutations, and nature selects for the most beneficial ones. A recent study in Science adds a twist to that theory: variability already present in a population's genome may remain hidden in times of plenty but come unmasked in stressful situations, ready to help with adaptation.
This is, we are told, still "a topic of active research." That is a good approach, better than insisting that traditional Darwinian concepts offer all the insight we need as long as we can cut the subject down to size. Because, one way or another, it's just not Darwin's evolution any more.
A variety of other non-Darwinian mechanisms of evolution may produce some change in some life forms, and we shall shortly give them each their turn in the spotlight.
Image: 305-million-year-old harvestman fossil via University of Manchester.
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2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 (1-pound) bunch kale, trimmed
1 cup fat-free, lower-sodium chicken broth
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
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2. Add kale, turning with tongs to coat. Add broth; cover and cook 3 minutes. Add salt and beans; cook, uncovered, 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in vinegar. Sprinkle with cheese, if desired.
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Calories 126
Fat 5 g
Satfat 0.8 g
Monofat 3.6 g
Polyfat 0.6 g
Protein 6.1 g
Carbohydrate 15.4 g
Fiber 3.7 g
Cholesterol 1 mg
Iron 2 mg
Sodium 260 mg
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The rhetoric that has preceded this trip is misguided in other ways. The idea being put around that there is a reservoir of goodwill towards Britain in India because of the legacy of Empire is wishful thinking. There is no British "special relationship" with India any more than there is between London and Washington. For an increasing number of young Indians, the Raj is history. They are just as likely to look to the US, China or Japan for business and economic opportunities. We delude ourselves if we imagine that a British accent confers any special privileges.
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webmail based on Telerik sample webmail application
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If you have no experience with Telerik controls otherwise it will be a disaster because Telerik controls are not
easy to deal with when it comes to advanced binding and real life implementations.
Need to hookup telerik sample webmail app to real mail app.
Please download fake app here: (from "Help" menu)
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1) Receive and display new emails using IMAP.
2) Read email.
3) Send email using IMAP: create new messages, reply to recieved messages, forward received messages
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5) Save received and sent emails to database.
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3) All Mail has to be saved to database table on Receive/Sent and loaded into app from database.
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6) Following folders on left pane are needed: 1) Inbox, 2) Sent and they should load related emails when clicked and show count next to folder name.
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9) All database and mail server interaction has to be done inside of business objects only. So on all page events (clicks, load) it should look like something like
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Page_Load or NeedDataSource events:
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[url removed, login to view] MailOut=new [url removed, login to view]();
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Mail.To=[url removed, login to view];
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|Navy beans/Pea beans
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|1 , peeled and sliced
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Calories 1115 Calories from Fat 550
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 62 g95.1%
Saturated Fat 26.4 g131.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 243.5 mg81.2%
Sodium 270.1 mg11.3%
Total Carbohydrates 82 g27.2%
Dietary Fiber 13.7 g54.8%
Sugars 3.5 g
Protein 61 g121.3%
Vitamin A 21.7% Vitamin C 45.1%
Calcium 9.7% Iron 30.8%
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Try this easy to prepare version of Pineapple Orange Punch. I am sure, once you try it, you will always crave for some more!
|Unsweetened pineapple juice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Orange juice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Lemon juice
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1 Pint
|Mint sprig
1. Mix the juices.
2. Divide the sherbet into six tall glasses, add the juices and stir slightly. Garnish with mint.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Easy
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1097 Calories from Fat 52
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6 g9%
Saturated Fat 2.3 g11.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 21.2 mg7.1%
Sodium 206.7 mg8.6%
Total Carbohydrates 253 g84.2%
Dietary Fiber 2.4 g9.6%
Sugars 194.6 g
Protein 14 g28.1%
Vitamin A 22.3% Vitamin C 826.2%
Calcium 12.9% Iron 14.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
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The very nice man at the South African embassy in London seems genuinely shocked by the idea of Brits flying to Cape Town or Jo'burg for surgery. "My God!" he says. "I can't get my head round that one." But it's a relatively popular option. The country (which pioneered human heart transplants) offers top quality surgery at competitive prices, most people speak English and the climate is wonderful if you're not feeling all that well.
John Yates, a grandfather of six, has just paid £5,000 to fly more than 5,000 miles to South Africa for a replacement hip, rather than risk an 18-month wait on the NHS. The 70-year-old from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was "in agony" when he went to see a specialist about his right hip last October. He was expecting to be told there would be a delay in getting treatment because he had had to wait three months for his left hip to be replaced five years ago.
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Dr Dymond, who treats around 40 Brits a year at his clinic, says he has been so encouraged by the influx that if the trend continues he will approach BA or Virgin Atlantic about the possibility of offering package "sun surgery" trips.
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While many countries can use the promise of cut-price private medicine to lure wealthy foreigners, Germany cannot. The businesslike response of the country's private hospitals, faced with excess capacity, has been to set up a deluxe service, GerMedic, which promises not only to help foreigners arrange operations but to sort out hotel accommodation for their relatives and organise translators. The scheme is controversial, but the chairman of the Committee for the Promotion of German Medicine Overseas, Dieter Thomae, is unrepentant. "Illness knows no frontiers," he says. "We are proud of the trust that people have in the quality of our services. In health, as elsewhere, modern care is increasingly subject to the international division of labour."
In spite of America's best efforts, or perhaps because of them, Cuba's healthcare system - like its organic farming system - is flourishing. Its doctors and scientists are plentiful and innovative, and the country's state-run clinics are now starting to offer specialist treatments, such as one for night blindness, to European patients. It is a long way to go though - popping back for aftercare is not going to be easy - and you may regret not speaking Spanish. Sites such as www.cubanacan.cu/servimed/servime1.html offer more information.
Not a cheap option, but an option for those who can't get the operation they want anywhere else - either because no one else knows how to carry it out, or no one else is prepared to do it.
With the British, it is popular for radical, last-ditch surgery. There's little point in travelling to the US for anything mundane, such as a hip replacement - you will be asked to pay more than you would have to here. Wealthy customers from developing countries, however, are more than happy to pay US prices, and they of course make up the vast bulk of America's health tourism trade.
There are professional brokers who can help you find the operation you want, but all the big teaching hospitals welcome foreign patients and have websites. Many have special deals with travel agents and will make sure you're looked after throughout your trip.
Specialist British company Medplex (www.medplex.org/list.htm) claims to offer surgical procedures with a five-star holiday on the side in tropical Thailand.
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There are now international broker companies which say they will find patients the operation they want and where they want it. Try HealthTourism (www.healthcareland.com/HCC/health_tourism.htm), which offers surgery in the Crimea, Jerusalem, Switzerland...you name it.
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