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How Modern Surgery Changed Everything & How to Ask the Right Questions

Something You Should Know

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What You Should Know About Surgery

What we know as modern surgery is really only about a hundred years old. And yet it has advanced so rapidly in that short amount of time. The amazing history of surgery, modern surgery, is fascinating. But why did it take so long for surgery to become part of medicine and be a real thing? There are four foundational elements that need to have been discovered, or selesh invented, in order to do a safe and effective operation. What are those four things? Firstly, a surgeon has to understand human anatomy. Second is, they need to be able to stop hemorrhaging. Third, anaesthesia. And the fourth thing is antisepsis. So anatomy, bleeding, anaesthesia,

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