Thank you Swymmer.
Does anyone have any idea how much it would cost in the States if you got the same services from, say, UCSF?

I work in a hospital in Japan which is one of the most prolific refferal thyroid clinics in the world. Not to be inmodest, we perform over 1500 surgeries a year, almost all of them on thyroids and 40% of which are thyroid malignancies. We have one of the best outcomes in the world, which is well doc...