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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 03 > General surgeons: crucial, rare and getting rarer

General surgeons: crucial, rare and getting rarer

By David Brown / The Bulletin
January 3, 2009

BURLINGTON, Iowa — It’s not yet 9 a.m., and as most of his 27,000 neighbors are getting ready for Saturday chores, John Phillips has a familiar one.

Anesthetized and draped in blue is a 10-year-old boy with a red-hot abscess on his belly. An overhead lamp shines on a patch of....

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