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One reason for this is that in the device field, the very surgeon performing the operation is often an inventor, too.
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Nine of the nation's 10 highest-paying occupations are in the medical field, including anesthesiologist, oral and maxillofacial surgeon, orthodontist, and obstetrician and gynecologist.
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James Eadie is the coordinating surgeon on-call one recent evening at Balad field hospital in Iraq.
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"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field, " says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Witnesses at field hospitals almost invariably commented with horror on the piles of limbs lying near the surgeon's table, dissociated from the bodies to which they had belonged, transformed into objects of revulsion instead of essential parts of people.
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