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Okay, and we're here with Behind the Knife's Ab-Sight Review.

So the topic today is hernia.

So let's just go

with some basic principles. So John, when we talk about the basic principles that we always

ask medical students, what is a basic principle of a good hernia repair? What do we always

talk about? Yeah, the obvious answer to that is a tension-free repair. Exactly. We're always

going for the tension-free repair. We're going to talk about a few tactics we use to get that tension-free repair. Exactly. We're always going for the tension-free repair. We're

going to talk about a few tactics we use to get that tension-free repair. But when it comes to

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