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Advertisement: Tucson Medical Center has canceled all elective surgeries beginning today until Jan. 4 in order “to address the constrained nursing, clinical and medical staff,” according to an email TMC sent to its physicians. The email said the canceled surgeries will fall under Arizona’s recognized definition of elective surgeries: “A surgery that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient. A licensed medical professional shall use their best medical judgment in determining whether a surgery is non-essential or elective.” Factors taken into consideration will be the patient’s health, age and the urgency of the surgery. According to the email, surgeries won’t be considered non-essential if they “would threaten the patient’s life, threaten permanent dysfunction or impairment of any body part, risk metastasis or progression of staging, or require the pat