fyeah bring her home to yugoslavia

Agreed. The idea that she didn't see doctors in Hungary due to her clearly very severe condition over concerns about money is, I'm sorry, bullshit. I live in Eastern Europe, and have paid ridiculously little for medical care (and I have a chronic autoimmune disorder). At very most, the very best private hospitals with…

European medicine tends to favor less invasive forms of treatment than the U.S. Surgery is always the last resort. If she made it through the semester OK, then I'm sure she received proper medical care. As much as many Americans like to make any country other than the U.S. out to be like an impoverished village in…

Things have changed quite a lot in Hungary since 2001. You visited over a decade ago (I was also in Hungary in 2001). Hungary has since joined the EU and despite its current political problems, it's a pretty well-functioning, modern country. Things like clothing, cars and computers are much more expensive in Hungary…