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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by w4 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @11:51AM (#6599455)
This, right here, is the biggest issue. Routine, minor surgery? No longer a risk free proposition. This sort of antibiotic resistance will have, and is having, enormously deleterious effects on the kind of basic health care and medical science we take for granted.
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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by saalweachter on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:34PM (#6599782)
Fun fact: modern plastic surgery -- including purely cosmetic, non-normative surgery -- predates both antibiotics and anesthetics.
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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by evacuationdrill on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:12PM (#6602419)
That's not too surprising. People sometimes have ugly face moles and stuff, and it's not too hard to cut it off.
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