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M4 @URochester_SMD . research @EclipseLabAtUR . aspiring trauma/crit care surgeon. Past lives: gov IT & cybersec, IT mgmt, guitarist, audio tech.

ROC, formerly STL, AUS, CMH
Joined April 2022
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd you just didn't ask it correctly.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@razzz_med Something like 50% of all US med students come from the top 5% of household income in the USA, $225k/year or higher. 😳
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
Hobbies are back for #match2025 !
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Relieved that I can close the chapter on preclinical years! Step1 done.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@grouchybbMD Me to uworld
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd Here's another example. I asked it to write a second or third order question about histologic findings
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Halfway through my surgery clerkship and pelvic anatomy doesn’t get the time it deserves in M1/M2.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@doctornontrad @pedsmd2b I think some schools tend to grab more older folks than not, but nationally just 5.5% of students are 28 or older at matriculation
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Another fascinating way ChatGPT can be used for USMLE studying... ?s often test 4-5 similar diagnoses, ask the AI to summarize how each is different based on the exact question vignette you tell it: #mededAI
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1 year
@tessajoliver This also has me reflecting that medschools as a whole completely ignored/missed out on properly adapting to the modern age of meded. Sketchy is a decade old at this point, NBME et al are just now responding to it.
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Peter Hendzlik
9 months
@BehindTheKnife live laugh exlap
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Step 1 tomorrow. Vacillating wildly between feeling like I know nothing and feeling like I know nothing but will pass.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@egottliebMD @SAGES_Updates a med student unplugged the SCDs too early, and from the ensuing chaos @SAGES_Updates was born.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 months
So general surgery went up to 15 signals for 24-25. A little disappointing considering how little data we get from programs on what they consider a competitive applicant. #match2025 #gensurg
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
ChatGPT can generate visual mnemonic scenes for you. I am stunned at how good they are. Imagine how easy it would be to illustrate this yourself or with help of AI image gen? #sketchy #mededai #medtwitter
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd here's one from your field. it's kinda fun to see what it comes up with
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
An honor!! Had a blast at the symposium yesterday seeing what everyone has been up to.
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Congratulations to the 4th Annual Research Symposium abstract winners: Paul Burchard, MD and Totadri Dhimal, MD, and poster winners, Maggie Lesch, BS and Peter Hendzlik, BS! Outstanding work! 👏 @URMCSurgery @URochester_SMD @PBurchard_MD @TotadriD @pthendzlik @EclipseLabAtUR
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Peter Hendzlik
6 months
@ericpaulimd only ever heard of figure of 8, in other languages might be different I suppose?
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@ashtonsamos Second all of this thread!! Very validating. Isn't it funny how most med school curriculums get in the way of these things? Would have loved to have been learning like I have in dedicated the entire time.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Medicine clerkship ✅. Third year feeling too slow and too fast all at the same time.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd with some fine-tuning, I'd be willing to bet on it playing a big role, and sooner than we all might think.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@joshmcgoo neurosurgeons: *slaps roof of skull* this bad boy can fit so many triangles in it
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
DNA polymerase I vs III comes back to haunt me once again. #step1
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Peter Hendzlik
7 months
@IMIzidoro this is the first step on the road to the OR
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
One of my favorite things about taking a research year in med school has been the opportunity to teach preclinical med students and undergrads. Can't wait to teach as a resident and beyond.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
When I am a resident/fellow/attending, my solemn vow is that no trainees on my team will ever have to pay for coffee.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd Till I Collapse, eminem
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@ETSshow @PedsHemeDoc @DocWithBowtie @SamirShahMD @DoctorVig @aoglasser @ShikhaJainMD @WrayCharles @FutureDocs @TheRealDoctorT @AlexAndersonMD Yeah- some tough choices in the chocolate conference, especially first round. But such is life! Not as many peanut contenders as I would have liked to see. Payday vs. Reese's was tough. #medtaste
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
One of the best parts about being a student @URochester_SMD , is all of the faculty who have no problem investing in your future, in EVERY field. A joy it is to learn here.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
I think the NM brain perfusion scan for brain death is one of the most poignant images in medicine
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
My exact words seeing GPT in action for the first time Dr. Ryan. Here's another way I've been using it...I asked it help explain the clinical sig of plateau pressure using a board style question.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Trying to remember the key features of CMV? No problem, lets get AI to make us a Sketchy-style scene. Not bad for tech that is this early. #mededai
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
What kind of anti-arrhythmic is toblerone? My pt says we haven’t resumed their home dose of it yet and I’m not sure we have it on formulary.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Free 120✅, T-minus 3 days. #step1
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@miaowlex Med/Peds/ID/crit care. Yes. Quad boarded
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
my biggest contribution to patient care so far in MS3 has probably been putting in tickets to IT to replace keyboards and mice on EMR workstations that are way past death already
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@jasonryanmd are you using GPT4? Here is it's explanation of the same:
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Seeing a patient start to respond and follow commands again following a long recovery from TBI is something truly magical. What a privilege it is to do this work. This feeling never gets old.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@razzz_med Same here!! It’s deceptively deep 🫠 I’m in that awkward half-learned state where I know enough to convince myself I’m correct but am really even more incorrect
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Reason #132 I love Rochester…my mid-June morning bike commute was at 55degrees and looked like this.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
calcium is deceptively complex and touches an obscene amount of systems/pathology, feel like we could have had an entire day of lecture on it. #step1thoughts
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@EAST_TRAUMA @LibbyMD823 @jnahmias1 @evanwongMDCM @jckhalfpint @elliotthaut @ClaridgeJeffrey @BugaevNikolay @theduncmaster @SarahMattocks2 @ZielinskiTrauma as a med student I've already been the beneficiary of generous time and mentorship from so many here @URochesterSurg , I am excited to someday pay that generosity back and forward in my own career #EASTmemberchat
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Peter Hendzlik
11 months
I think my biggest attending flex will be subscribing to the print version of @JTraumAcuteSurg
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Having such an amazing time on GYN surg. Operated with an attending today who did the first lap GYN cases in upstate NY. Super cool!!!
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
what my todo list looks like during #step1 dedicated
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Peter Hendzlik
7 months
Writing an abstract is easy, making it fit into character limits? Hard.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
I spoke with a mother of a son with a difficult congenital condition. I learned she works with her home hosp pall care team to help families of other children with the same diagnosis. Humanity is beautiful, and may we never forget the people who give and pay it forward.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@trpender preparing us for a future whereby we treat all patients via text-only Telehealth to increase throughput.
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
Had a bad dream the other day where I couldnt find scrubs my size in the machine, is this #surgerylife ?
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
@ReaganACollins kicking off the morning #asc2024 session
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Peter Hendzlik
8 months
Finishing up another week of interviews for @URochester_SMD , always so so impressed by the applicants and their exploits. The future of medicine will be in good hands.
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
Touchdown in DC! #ASC2024 see you all soon
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Peter Hendzlik
7 months
So excited for #ASC2024 . Abstracts were accepted! Excited to present on trauma/SDH and cheer on one of @EclipseLabAtUR 's excellent undergrads who I worked with on the ChatGPT study!!!
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Feeling like I hit the jackpot with how smart, kind, and patient all my medicine residents have been so far.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
My most used tool by far after 5 months of surgery/medicine is a flashlight. Used daily. Protects patients from being annoyed at 5am. Bedside procedures way better, dressing changes, wound inspection, etc.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
If you have the option, highly recommend doing a transplant elective into a SICU elective...getting to follow patients from pre-transplant to the OR to their ICU stay and recovery is a supreme gift.
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
The cardiac ICU nurse to cardiac surgeon pathway is real
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
So proud of UR undergrad star Loralai for making her first ever academic conference presentation. Coming to a med school near you 2025 app cycle.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Two weeks on the ethics consult service starts today! Been looking forward to this rotation since before med school.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Real talk, when do people study for shelf…? On medicine right now and there is definitely nothing left in the study tank when I go home each day.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@RocMSTP Whoa 2030
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Peter Hendzlik
2 months
Inspired by a post I saw today(sorry couldn’t find it again haha): the number of GS programs (red), and total in the signal region (blue). #match2025 #gensurg2025
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
Figuring out where to do away rotations is daunting!
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Peter Hendzlik
6 months
So exciting to see this taking off. Congrats @RPDumasMD @MichaelVella32
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@EAST_TRAUMA @ldallan @Marayanicole @aymannnali @JGaspich @evanwongMDCM @jckhalfpint @LibbyMD823 @PMHTrauma_ALE @AppelbaumMD @tiffany_lian @ajbethurum @cblythesmith @Grant_McDaniel_ @irenazivkov #EASTmemberchat EAST has helped me connect w/ research and mentorship. Particularly with the EAST MCT program, I am working with @MichaelVella32 and @RPDumasMD on a trauma video review multi-center trial (let us know if your center might be interested!)
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
The third-year-after-first-week-of-medicine urge to nap all day instead of study
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Peter Hendzlik
2 months
pro: I live in Rochester so I didn't have to travel for the eclipse. con: its cloudy
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Peter Hendzlik
8 months
In addition to AOA and gold humanism there should be something for those people who donate when Wikipedia asks for it #eras
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
As a resident of western New York, the energy for this bills game is palpable.
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Peter Hendzlik
5 months
My can of Celsius never seems to last long enough.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Anyone who has ever told stories similar to @thenocturnists , @TheMoth what would you tell those preparing their own? I'm planning our second annual story telling hour at @URochester_SMD and helping folks prep to share their stories! any tips?
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Who out there is still doing Wordle? #medtwitter
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
Grateful to have holidays off but I also feel a bit of FOMO from not being able to follow with my patients from last week/being worried about them. Anyone else get this?
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
So thankful to be at @URochester_SMD , just finished 2 weeks on ethics service. Above everything else, it is great to be a learner in a place where folks truly care about the mission and people they serve.
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
@cafitzgerald11 @RPDumasMD @BBankheadMD Fleece jackets are surgeon's greatest financial weakness
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@UofR It’s a beautiful morning here at @uofr
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
It's personal. It affects us all. How can we keep acting as if it doesn't? I lived in Texas for 8 years, and know first or second hand people affected by almost all of these tragedies. This is not the world I want to leave for our kids.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
finishing child/adolescent psych clerkship today, will miss it. I think surgery and psychiatry are closer in valence than most people think. Both 'maximally invasive', face to face with patient, nothing in between. One more structured, one less.
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Peter Hendzlik
4 months
Props to whoever has been writing the coffee break haikus in the conference app. #asc2024 @AcademicSurgery
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@KaitlynSchiess Finding this applies pretty well to medicine/doctors too. More similarities between ministry and medicine than many (in either field) would readily admit!
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Really enjoying the occasional “mystery” of surgery-not really knowing what you’re going to see before you get into the abdomen/pelvis.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 months
Seeing that other people have added your smartphrase to their list feels oddly good.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
I love McDonalds coffee. Why? At 5 am there is nowhere to get a fresh cup of coffee in the hospital except at the McDonalds across the street. Pretty dependable as far as coffee goes.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Here's a picture generated using Midjourney from the prompt "a haunted house filled with spook cancerous cells"
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Peter Hendzlik
9 months
@rsparklebomb I use the lexicomp app, have it through institution's subscription. is likely you have access to that or micromedex.
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Peter Hendzlik
7 months
5 amazing projects members from @EclipseLabAtUR @docwilson13 are presenting at #ASC2024 @AcademicSurgery . @chelseamar1n #othersnotontwitter . Very grateful and proud to work with these talented people.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
@ani_cdotes @trpender I think its because there has never been the "market environment" so to speak around maximizing your step2 score like there was around step1. I expect that to change, as the metagame changes around residency apps. This is the very first year of that change.
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
This week in Rochester has been gorgeous. Now its back to the library finally getting the beta-blockers straight...
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
@ButsonCarter @ashtonsamos start uworld/amboss ASAP. no sense in waiting, there are so many questions and the explanations are such high quality. Amboss can be had for much cheaper if you throw together a discounted group order (I think I paid $120~~?)
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
A powerful narrative of hope from @selwyn_rogers , for both patient and doctor.
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Okay Strava locking their “Strava wrapped” behind a $12/mo subscription makes me sad
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Peter Hendzlik
2 years
#medtwitter #MedStudentTwitter to all med students interested in surgery/ #trauma / #criticalcare , come check out this month's #eastmemberchat . Talking about ways med students can get involved and explore the career, and how @EAST_TRAUMA members can support!
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Peter Hendzlik
1 year
Sounds like we need to get @lj_punch out here to Rochester sometime! @docwilson13
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LJ Punch, MD (he/they)
1 year
@timpawlik @OhioStateSurg @OSUWexMed @OSUCCC_James @OhioStateMed @OhioStateWIMS @jckhalfpint @OhioStateNews @emilyhuangmd @carriesims20 @ajyoung524 @TheB_R_I_C It was wonderful to share and appreciate the invitation. Looking forward to see how we can support the amazing community at OSU and in Columbus! #TheFutureIsNotBinary
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Peter Hendzlik
3 months
@tessajoliver woohoo!!!
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