• Surgeons have successfully completed a heart bypass operation on a patient who was left awake throughout.

    BBC: Heart bypass - with local anaesthetic

  • Opening partner Shaun Marsh followed, but Hussey and Ponting began the rescue operation with a patient third-wicket stand.

    BBC: White & Hussey guide Aussies home

  • Surgeons in the United States announced in July this year that they had successfully completed a heart bypass operation on a patient who was left awake throughout.

    BBC: heart op

  • The team believes that acupuncture was first used in dentistry for pain relief during an operation to remove a patient's tonsils in Shanghai in 1958.

    BBC: dentist

  • The IMF would quickly learn the value of sound money, and stop acting like those early 19th-century surgeons, who thought using anesthesia for an operation would weaken a patient's character.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • It found that the average waiting time for an operation, once a patient had been assessed by a consultant, remained unchanged at an average of eight months, compared with the NHS maximum target of 12 months.

    BBC: Patients get untested hips

  • Professor David Sharpe, a consultant plastic surgeon based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said he had failed to persuade medical insurance companies to pay for breast reduction surgery even in cases where it was obvious that the patient required the operation on medical grounds.

    BBC: Surgery

  • Reminds me of the old unfunny quip that the operation was a success but the patient died.

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  • The operation was successfully carried out on patient Paddy Flood from Derby.

    BBC: Pioneering robotic arm operation at Glenfield Hospital

  • There's a terrific early scene when he goes in to hospital for his operation and brusquely dismisses the standard patient questionnaire as intrusive and irrelevant.

    CNN: Review: Gervais gives edge to 'Ghost Town'

  • This used to be done only for some serious or relatively rare problems, or surgically if a patient was having an operation for another heart issue.

    NPR: Heart Repair Breakthroughs Replace Surgeon's Knife

  • Mr Nadey Hakim, a surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London who has taken part in a hand transplant operation in France, said any patient who undergoes the procedure would experience rejection.

    BBC: Hand transplant 'a success'

  • About four months after each patient's original operation, when their hearts had stabilised, Dr Bolli used a catheter to deliver 1m of the newly bred stem cells to their damaged heart muscle.

    ECONOMIST: Stem cells and medicine: Repairing broken hearts | The

  • Trouble is, this falls in the "operation was a success, but the patient died" category.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Several months earlier, I had performed the same operation on a 66-year-old patient, using an identical stapling device.

    WSJ: Book Excerpt: Confessions of a Surgeon

  • Scarborough Hospital said it was prevented by patient confidentiality from revealing whether any operation to re-attach the man's penis had been a success.

    BBC: News | Health | Man severs own penis

  • Fifteen days later, after the patient has recovered a bit from the operation, he gets the vaccine.

    FORBES: In search of antigens

  • Secondly, by increasing patient choice so that spare capacity in the system is used as efficiently as possible and patient can opt to have a faster operation by going somewhere other than the local hospital.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Blair on his NHS pledges

  • The operation may have been a success, but if the patient was meant to be the U.S. financial markets, its condition was not much improved.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But a British expert said that while giving only a local anaesthetic for such a major operation had advantages, it also involved extra risks for the patient.

    BBC: Heart bypass - with local anaesthetic

  • Doctors began the operation by making three tiny incisions in the white part of the patient's eye.

    BBC: Doctors fight blindness with eye implant

  • They are starting with a much sicker patient and often doing something that is a re-operation or a more technically challenging surgery.

    FORBES: What Do You Think Of The "Do Prestigious Residencies Mean Better Doctors?" Article In The Atlantic?

  • Opponents claim that at best, it is an unnecessary ritual, and that at worst, it is an operation that proves detrimental to the physical and psychological health of the patient.

    CNN: Health

  • Montefiore Medical Center has amassed a private network of hospitals and clinics and a patient management system that makes it easier to run a profitable operation in the Bronx, which like Brooklyn has a high percentage of poor patients.

    WSJ: SUNY to Unveil Plan for Struggling Hospitals

  • But the operation has given him a new lease of life and, according to the patient, he feels 100% well.

    BBC: Heart pump patient 'doing well'

  • Operation Jasmine was established in October 2005 after Gladys Thomas, 84, a patient at Bryngwyn Mountleigh nursing home in Newbridge, was admitted to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital after being given incorrect doses of medication.

    BBC: Care home inquiry: Dr Prana Das will not stand trial

  • New Zealand has recently moved towards such a system: patients get points for such things as their operation's chances of success, the number of dependants affected by the patient's illness, and the time they have already waited.

    ECONOMIST: Bevan’s baby hits middle age | The

  • The patient, from Frinton, was at Colchester Hospital for post-heart operation care until Wednesday.

    BBC: Essex

  • One patient, Claire Hill, who is contemplating legal action, had an operation done by Mr Jones in 2010.

    BBC: Tower Block at the Royal Cornwall Hospital

  • After he told the story in our M and M meeting, the hospital implemented a "time out" protocol in the operating room for everyone to stop and agree on what operation would be performed, on what side of the body and whether the correct patient was indeed lying on the operating table, to make sure that kind of mistake would never happen again.

    CNN: More is not always better in medicine

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