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Don’t Recover From Surgery Alone Post-Surgery Care Of Atlanta, LLC helps patients through the healing process.
By Cory Sekine-Pettite
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ccording to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 17 million Americans undergo some type of surgery every year — from routine tonsillectomies to elective procedures to
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emergency operations. Some surveys suggest the number may be closer 50 million. Another disputed statistic in academic and medical communities is the estimated number of procedures requiring anesthesia that each of us likely is to
endure over our lifetimes. You could end up undergoing nine or more such operations in your life, which could include simple dental procedures like a tooth extraction to more complicated surgeries like a knee replacement. Regardless,
