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Sawbones: What's the Point of Soup?

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Branding Uteruses

A doctor had stitches initials into people in Morse code when he would have finished surgery. The only thing that we use that's even similar to that in a surgical procedure is cottery, which is like burning the wound to seal it. I grew up in a Aleve family. Is there a historical reason why an approximation is so much less popular than ibuprofen?

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