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“It was a surgery rotation when I was in medical school. Middle-aged lady brought in unconscious, pale, and possibly bleeding internally; she stabbed herself multiple times in the abdomen because her husband cheated on her. We cut her abdomen open trying to find the source of bleeding, and begin to suture. As we were placing back the guts into the cavity, my chief resident…
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“My quick answer is rib removal and buccal fat removal. But also: there is a space for discussing procedures as being awful, but what’s more important is WHO is doing the surgery. The aesthetics community is riddled with non-plastic surgeons doing…
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“I’m a surgeon, and I also do litigation work. So, most ‘errors’ in surgery are not related to someone slipping and accidentally cutting the wrong thing, although that can happen with misidentification of anatomy such as bile ducts during…
