MONDAY MIND GAME

During the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, there was a world-famous surgeon who had a 98% success rate with all of his surgeries, but in spite of that, all of his patients died.

Explain.





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Abraham Lincoln died 154 years ago. Anybody that was this surgeon's patient would've died by now, right?

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