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Your Miraculous And Mysterious Body

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Importance of Willpower in Surgery

"I really almost lost my will during this surgery. It went on for hours, things had gone wrong," he says. The spot where the liver was sewn onto the vena cava fell apart when they tried to repurfuse it. "We could barely control it by holding it with our hands and hit the point where I was like ... we should just stop."

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