Walking Away from Conveyor-Belt Medicine

The phone rings in our emergency department. It's a call from a community hospital, which is sending us a 70-year-old patient in need of an urgent procedure. His aortic endoprosthesis, inserted a few years back, appears to be out of place. His aortic aneurysm, which had been stable, is much larger…

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