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John Bookwalter, MD, FACS, 1970 | Inside Surgery Alumni Spotlight

Dr. John Bookwalter is featured as the alumni spotlight story in the Inside Surgery publication. The story highlights Dr. Bookwalter’s success as a surgeon, innovator, and creator/developer of eponymous retractors and appears in the Fall/Winter 2019 issue from the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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