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This, right here, is the biggest issue. Routine, minor surgery? No longer a risk free proposition. This sort of antibiotic resistance will have, and is having, enormously deleterious effects on the kind of basic health care and medical science we take for granted.

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Fun fact: modern plastic surgery -- including purely cosmetic, non-normative surgery -- predates both antibiotics and anesthetics.

That's not too surprising. People sometimes have ugly face moles and stuff, and it's not too hard to cut it off.

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