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Terry Stanton
Rishi Balkissoon was introduced to orthopaedic surgery as a 12-year-old with an injured hand. He was treated with pin fixation for a fracture that disrupted the joint surface of a finger, because without the surgery, he was told, "Arthritis of that finger would probably develop and I wouldn't be able to bend it."
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