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Discovery Bay’s Jim and Diane Rider appear together on a trip to Germany in front of Stenum Hospital, where Jim Rider says he was the its first U.S. patient to receive artificial spinal disc replacement surgery in 2003. Since then, he says he’s helped more than 3,000 patients travel there for surgery, transforming the hospital into an international destination. (photo courtesy of Jim Rider)He became German hospital's first American patient to receive artificial disc replacement.
Originally published at Charleen Earley