The least a guy can do after cutting your heart open is check to see how you're doing.
Indeed, a recent study suggests that patients recover better from heart surgery if they receive a couple house calls from a physician's assistant in the week following the operation.
The study, which followed 1,185 heart surgery patients in the weeks after their operations, found that those who received visits from a medical professional on the second and fifth days after leaving the hospital were 41 percent less likely to be readmitted to the hospital in the next month.
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