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DALLAS -- Good surgical skills and proper preoperative evaluation are the best means for preventing surgical complications, but complications can occur even in the most skilled hands.
When they do, it is important to deal with the patients' emotional as well as physical needs, Dr. Duane C. Whitaker said at the joint annual meeting of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery and the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology
It helps to ask patients about expectations, and to explain the need...
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