Mission and NGO hospitals make a valuable contribution to elective surgery, and externally funded surgeons make an important contribution to specialist surgery.

教会和民间组织医院为选择性外科手术做出了宝贵贡献，并且外部资助的外科医生也为专家外科手术做出了重要贡献。

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Now the New England Journal of Medicine argues in an editorial that sleep-deprived physicians set to perform elective surgery should have to get the informed consent of the patient.

现在，《新英格兰医学杂志》在一篇重要评论中指出，睡眠不足的医生在准备执行非紧急手术时应当得到病人的知情同意。

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"It might be appropriate to delay a truly elective surgery, but they represent only a small percentage of procedures in very young children," he says.

推迟一些不必要的手术是合适的，但是这类手术只占幼儿医疗程序的很小一部分，他说道。

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"So the first thing,I must admit, suffers is surgery: elective surgery.Stop."

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This epidemic of uncertain care is an unintended outgrowth of a decades-long boom in elective surgery.

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In 2001, patients requiring elective surgery could wait as long as 18 months for an operation.

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They also want to establish dedicated elective surgery centres, which, they suggest, private companies could run.

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