German law prohibits to make x-rays of healthy people

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Do you guys think it is necessary to send a x-ray with my application for a LL surgery in order to be taken seriously by the clinic/doctor?
I wanna go to the ISIC in India btw, so it will probably be hard enough to convince them of doing LL in any case.

I'm asking, because it has turned out to be illegal in Germany to make x-rays without any indication of the patient being sick - not even with the consent of the patient.
I already got turned down by a clinic and an orthopedist and both referred to the same law. Not joking, that's really what happened 
Now I really wonder how the famous German LL doctors can possibly make x-rays of their LL patients' lower body prior the surgery, since they are still in good health.
Maybe they are just not that law-abiding, I don't know...

Maybe I should just go and ask one of them to make some x-rays of my legs for surgery in another clinic 
Or I'll have to travel to another European country then, just for some stupid x-rays 

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Quote from: YourSpaceBoyfriend on August 23, 2016, 10:22:47 PMHow they will check that u are healthy? Can't you say that you had accident or something and you need to see if u broken something?

Then they would only x-ray one small area and not my entire legs. Plus the doctors here are pretty good at pinpointing problems.

Quote from: Jessie Believer on August 23, 2016, 10:47:17 PMTaking X-rays right before the surgery is an indication! Even though you're healthy it is necessary in this case, e.g. To plan the operation and other reasons like looking for contraindications. Since the X-ray of the first consultation is meant for giving the indication the this operation it's not illegal.

With "prior the surgery" I meat the x-rays which are typically taken for the consultation. That's what these two totally unrelated Doctors refused me to give because of the aforementioned law. Sorry, I should have made it more clear.



Edit: I won't give up, I'll call and write to every clinic a can find, till someone finally thinks that going to have LL in a 3th-world-country is indication enough to take x-rays of my legs and to do some checkups before I go there

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Quote from: Deads on August 24, 2016, 05:39:54 PMPeople choose India for one reason.

Hahah, yes only one 

But who knows, maybe this is going to be the magical place in India we are all hoping for: cheap as dirt, and with skilled doctors who even care for their patients
The potential is there.  We will see...