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Archive > August, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 8

Cutting Remarks

XXL Patients

John Kelly, IV, MD

Our patients are getting bigger and bigger. Not only is the obesity epidemic to blame, but the abundance of food, protein shakes and the steroid craze are generating larger and larger patients. I worry when I do surgery on these behemoths because complications increase and exposures are truly more difficult.

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