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So the topic today is hernia.

So let's just go over 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. We're going to talk about a few tactics we use to get that tension-free repair.

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