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Exhibit 24.4
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Mark A.
Kopser and John J. Wellik, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, to sign on his
behalf, as a director or officer, or both, as the case may be, of United Surgical Partners
International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Corporation), the Corporations Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and to sign any or all amendments to such Form
10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them
with or without the others, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact or its substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
/s/ John C. Garrett, M.D. | ||||
John C. Garrett, M.D. | ||||