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by thaumasiotes 3682 days ago
> Basically infections are a sign you did something wrong, removing that feedback promotes problems.

Having surgery at all meets any standard of "you did something wrong".

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Less so than you might think. Unless you want to suggest bad DNA is some how your fault. However, I am speaking from the surgeons perspective.
In the sense of your comment, that "infections are a sign you did something wrong", having surgery is "doing something wrong". Your body has no plan for you to undergo surgery; it relies on the assumption that your skin separates your inside from your outside and any contact between inside and outside not mediated by your skin or your stomach is a catastrophic failure.