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    This X-ray from October 2014 shows the fusion hardware that Swedish doctors inserted into Orna Berkowitz’s lower spine (L2-L5) during two surgeries earlier that year. In the days that followed her procedure, Berkowitz developed a series of problems that forced her to undergo three more surgeries to fix a spinal-fluid leak, redo her spinal-decompression procedure and remove a fluid drain that had inadvertently been sutured to her body.
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