Simple surgery that in the West would involve no overnight stay, such as a hernia operation, entails a five-day hospital stay in Japan.

在西方，简单的手术不会让病人住院过夜，比如疝气手术，但在日本却必须住院五天时间。

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But when surgeons operated (a hernia is tough to X-ray and needs to be fixed surgically), there was no twisted loop of intestine behind that bump.

然而当外科医生为我做手术时(因为用X光很难判断疝气，必需得靠外科手术)，在那块疙瘩后面却并未发现任何露出来的肠子什么的。

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Zazu: ha! You'll lose more than that when the King gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia.

沙祖：哈！如果国王不理睬你了，你会失去更多。他现在正在气头上呢。

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Dr. Shouldice rejected the idea that a hernia should be given to a young surgical resident or treated as a bread-and-butter procedure.

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There are two main approaches to repairing a hernia: an open repair that requires a large incision, or a minimally invasive laparoscopic technique, which uses a camera to guide instruments through a tiny incision.

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Instead, she learned that her ancestor never saw action and was discharged after less than a year for a hernia caused by "excessive marching and a fall over a log, " says Dr. Hibben, a Lake Mathews, Calif.

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