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. 1996 Apr;223(4):446–447. doi: 10.1097/00000658-199604000-00023

"Practice makes perfect" is intuitive; the applicability of this axiom to surgical outcomes has been tenuous at best.

T P Wade, F E Johnson
PMCID: PMC1235150  PMID: 8633926

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