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<P><DC=128,128,128><JC>SURGEON GENERAL URGES CAUTION ON GENETIC MODIFICATION</JC>
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<P>With a wave of new genetic modification systems sweeping the continent, the Surgen General John Archer has issued caution about the technology. 
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<P>"The safety of such radical genetic modification cannot be, in any way, assured. Modification technology has recently gone far beyond simple modifications to changes so radical that those using them can no longer officially be considered human." Stated the General during a forum on future biological modifications. 
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<P>Doctors around the country have also begun to complain about the systems and changes. "How the [censored] do you operate on a half-human half... well, something else? You can't [operate -ed.] safely!" exclaimed Dr. Amos Carlson at the Meade Medical Center, after loosing an undisclosed accident patient, a biomorphic organism who had extreme genetic modifications. 
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<P>Despite the opposition, some doctors are more open. "It's simply a new challenge and opportunity. Despite the outside differences, a lot of the inner morphology is compatible, except for some of the newest, most radical augmentations and genetic re-programming." said Dr. Jason Alabar, also from the Meade Medical Center. Genetic modification clinics now offer skin system changes, skeletal restructuring, muscular reconfiguration, sensory enhancement, and many other procedures.