Open Heart Surgery Research Paper

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Would you allow a three year old to do open heart surgery? No, not unless you wanted to have a deceased patient on the operating table. We must have a source of guidance in daily life, careers, school, etc. Guidance is something that every person thrives for throughout their life. With the medical field being such a crucial job, students require a lot of guidance while learning their new career. Therefore, adolescents do not contain the right to make any autonomous medical choices until otherwise authorized by their medical mentor.
The medical field requires a high level of attentiveness and the ability to efficiently retain things. As a adolescent acquiring new knowledge of the medical field and all that inhabits the subject, is extremely

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