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Old 07-04-2024, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by JMintzer View Post
A travel insurance policy will cover that. We have friends, where the wife fell and broker her wrist in the Galapagos Islands. They had to re-route the ship, and fly her out on a helicopter.

The insurance paid for all of it (and yes, it was very expensive...)
I would have thought that the ships doctor would have been able to set the wrist but guess not.