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Surgery
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
     2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.


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Twenty-six percent of those who work chairside are in specialty offices (Chart 2) and of those, 25% assist in orthodontic offices with the balance split fairly evenly (at about 11% each) in endodontics, periodontics, pediatrics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and others.
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