Article: Giving Greece a second chance.(Motorcycling 2006)

Byline: Linda 'Jo' Giovannoni

Part two of two parts

In last week's article we left off with Becky Brown less than a week into her 2005 Greek motorcycle trip, stranded in a foreign hospital after a hit-and-run.

Brown, founder of Women in the Wind and a rider of 30 years, was without transportation and her leg was in a cast.

"Greece has socialized medicine," Brown said. "At the hospital, the doctor took an x-ray, told me to bend my knee and without warning (or pain medicine) shoved hard to set my leg. It's a good thing he was sitting on my 'good leg' as it involuntarily kicked. Heartburn medicine was the only medication the hospital ...

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