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Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes on When You Go Under

An anesthetist reveals operating room curses and superstitions, the characteristics of a good surgeon, and the patients that doctors fear, in this insider's view of the fascinating protocols of the operating room and the people who work there.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 200 pages

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