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Archive > October, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 10

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Unsafe Offices?
Controversial Study Indicts Office Surgery Safety
The risk of death and injury resulting from a surgical procedure may be 10 times higher when performed in physicians' offices than in ambulatory surgery centers, according to a Florida-based study in the September Archives of Surgery likely to re-ignite national debate about office surgeries.

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