Ted Turner rushed to clinic in Argentina with appendicitis-media


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  • Saturday, 08 Mar 2014

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Philanthropist and former media tycoon Ted Turner was rushed to a hospital early on Friday in Argentina's Patagonia region before flying to Buenos Aires for surgery for appendicitis, local media said.

After a brief stay in the San Carlos clinic in the lakeside city of Bariloche, near an area where Turner owns property, the 75-year-old founder of cable TV network CNN was flown to the Argentine capital for treatment.

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