Anticipating pitfalls in surgery: preparing the mind to see.
Kris Strohbehn, MD, is from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; e-mail: kris.strohbehn@hitchcock.org.
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