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surgery

[sur-juh-ree] / ˈsɜr dʒə ri /


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The service refers patients to England for surgery.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

She received the lifesaving surgery in the fall of 2000.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Bree begins the film desperately wanting gender-affirming surgery, so much so that her urgency incites the film’s madcap mumblecore events.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Robotic and minimally invasive surgery provide additional growth opportunities in the longer term, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Phineas's reconstructed brain matches brain scans of her patients who had cortex tumor surgery.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

They’d go on to be major league pitchers after each endured arm surgeries.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

After multiple surgeries, Macs' Berlin Heart was fitted on 7 August after leaving Bristol for Newcastle.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Though visits with a primary care doctor are covered by a DPC fee, patients still need insurance, on top of that annual fee, for medication, hospital stays, specialist visits, surgeries, and emergencies.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

Conversations about next steps and tests and surgeries.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds




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