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Archive > January, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 1

Editor's Page

What a Week

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

The week between Christmas and New Year's has traditionally been a very popular time for patients to schedule non-urgent procedures. Teachers and students are on break, patients who've met their deductibles for the year are scrambling to get in under the wire and there's built-in time to recover. A quirk in the calendar fueled the surge for demand in surgery this year: Both Christmas and New Year's Day fell on a Friday, creating long weekends, all the better for patients to recover from minor surgery without burning personal days at work.

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