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VA_Jill

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14. The mainstream media

Reply to Avalux (Original post)

Wed Nov 26, 2014, 12:41 PM

Nov 2014

are of course trumpeting this as "heart surgery" which makes me FURIOUS. It's a PROCEDURE, dammit! Seems like journalists can't be bothered to get anything right these days.
--signed, Cardiac R.N. (ret.)

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