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Stuart G

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2. I agree, "You'd think they'd keep better track of those sort of things"

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 06:36 PM

Jan 2018

I guess they don't. Why? I think it is that some surgeons are not as smart as we think they are. A few are actually pretty stupid. (Just like the rest of the world. Some people are "smart" "some are in the middle" and "some are stupid" in fact..."a few are very very stupid"

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