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Archive >  Surgical Construction 2008

See Your ORs Before They're Built

Before spending millions on their construction projects, these hospitals first created fake operating rooms.

Dawn Fallik

Styrofoam booms. Cardboard surgical tables. Unplugged equipment. It was unlike any OR Todd Butler had seen, but he liked what he saw.

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