Congress tinkering with patent law while gagging inventors is like a surgeon operating before examining the patient.
But this felt like a surgeon's scalpel slicing away the combined economies of half a billion people like so much diseased flesh.
After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.
What is it like to be a surgeon?
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Remember, though, even if you've done your homework and found a surgeon you like at a price you can afford the decision to pursue cosmetic surgery is yours and yours alone.
When I am asked whether presenting the Today programme makes me nervous, I usually answer that the very worst that can happen in live broadcasting is that one is left looking like a prat - the stakes are nothing like as high for us as they are for a surgeon or even a stockbroker with a widow's pension to look after.
Early on Anderson assembled advisory panels of insiders, like Robin Cotton, a British ear, nose and throat surgeon renowned for his ability to repair kids' windpipes.
Tadanori Aizawa, a surgeon at Tokyos Cardiovascular Institute Hospital, would like to use the latest cardiac stents, metallic mesh devices made by Guidant Corp.
Wayne Miller's exhaustively researched, novel-like account of Walt Lillehei, a restless, hard-living surgeon who as a young man survived World War II and a deadly case of lymphatic cancer.
Wayne Miller's exhaustively researched, novel-like account of Walt Lillehei, a restless, hard-living surgeon who as a young man had survived World War II and a deadly case of lymphatic cancer.
If a surgeon ever opened him up they would probably find "Lanky" printed right through him like a stick of Blackpool Rock.
Like most companies, however, Surgeon and Safari was hit by the global financial crisis, particularly as a number of Melvill's clients were borrowing money to afford their procedures.
"Physicians like to do things that work, that make money and promote their specialty, " says Frank Veith, a vascular surgeon at New York University Medical Center who is critical of newfangled neck stents.
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