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Old 01-28-2025, 07:44 AM   #18
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I stand corrected its only 20 times per week. But according to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, it happens more than 4,000 times per year, at a rate of 20 times per week.Even a rookie carpenter is taught measure twice cut once.
The numbers you’re looking at refer to “wrong site surgeries” which include very small errors, actual wrong limb amputations are very rare in the US these days.

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Surgeons are waay smarter...like you.....and you are scared of bugs? OMG what a
I had one of those common little yellow sac spiders land me in the hospital once. Generally I’m a friend of spiders but not these, they deserve to die.
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