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Caroline E. Sheppard, Erica L. W. Lester, Anderson W. Chuck, et al. (2014). Medical tourism and bariatric surgery: who pays?. Surgical Endoscopy, 28(12), 3329-3336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-014-3613-8