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Byline: California Pacific Medical Center

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Dye may be talking himself out of a job. Dr. Dye is advising many patients with certain sports-related knee injuries that surgery may not be the best way to treat the problem, and that simply modifying activities to decrease stress on the knee may be enough to prevent the development of arthritis.

Dr. Dye, a physician at California Pacific Medical Center, and on clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, will be presentin

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