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Painless Cannulation: Music to My Ears

Ronak Patel Ronak Patel, DO, and Yana Etkin, MD, are with the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY.

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