It took 10 people to lift the sedated bear onto a make-shift operating table to have root canal done on the tooth.

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The operating room itself contained a maze of plastic piping that twisted though the air between the heart-and-lung machine and the operating table.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning shook off his neck brace and passed for more than 4, 000 yards, Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson jumped off the operating table and produced the second-highest rushing total in history, and Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis returned to the field just 12 weeks after tearing his triceps.

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On the operating table in front of me is Terence Heron, a 47-year-old family man from Portadown, County Armagh.

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The government has retained some crucial objectives, notably the pledge to achieve by 2008 a maximum all-in waiting time for elective treatment, from a family doctor's referral to the operating table, of 18 weeks.

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