> mangione did post online a scan from an apparent back operation he underwent following years of living with a misaligned vertebra that would pinch a nerve, causing him agonizing pain and limiting his physical activities. > however, a top surgeon who viewed the scan and offered an opinion on background at the request of the daily beast reported that it surgically looks pretty straightforward and was a pretty standard surgical procedure. the surgeon added: the x-ray is oblique and just one view so hard to say much about it but no obvious problems. > his family owns a string of nursing homes along with a country club and certainly could have arranged for rehab if his health insurance company was reluctant to provide it, as is sometimes the case.
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