surgery
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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
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"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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