Sid Schwab: “Operating, as is our aim, on sick people, more often than not things aren’t so pretty inside. Diabetic, or old, or overweight, or with concomitant diseases affecting various organs, typical surgical patients rarely retain the born-in beauty and peach-fuzz perfection with which they came into the world.”
Beautiful inside?
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