There are now hundreds of guys in the US alone who are getting it done every year. It's an elective surgery and not covered by insurance. The base model, which basically entails getting your femurs broken cost $75,000 alone. A lot of tech workers, people from Google, Facebook, Microsoft,. PayPal, you name it, are getting it too.
I wish I was a baller. I wish there was a doc who’d break my legs, I would call her.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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