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Measure twice, think three times, cut once

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When I was a child, my father taught me how to fix a punctured tyre. He stressed the importance of checking the whole tyre, even if I had already found a puncture, because there could always be more. In addition, he made me check the outer tyre for sharp pieces that could again damage the inside tyre.

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Correspondence to L. Noyez.

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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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Noyez, L. Measure twice, think three times, cut once. NHJL 18, 60 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03091738

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