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Old 4th Mar 2012, 05:05
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Mac the Knife

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Please don't be silly. Nobody is every operated by "somebody just out of Med school". A year or so after graduation as a general intern and then starting post-graduate training as a specialist. After that it'll be another two/three years of training/assisting before they're operating under supervision. Nobody operates "on their own" until they are board certified as a specialist.

The training is long and thorough - and in the old days (just like for you guys) it was much longer.
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