Given this, you may want to put aside a larger amount this year if you are interested in getting LASIK or other more costly procedures in 2012.

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In the modern era, pneumonectomies have traditionally been performed to treat lung cancer when other more conservative procedures cannot achieve comparable or satisfactory results.

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Indeed, one recent study conducted for MedPAC showed that, all else being equal, supplemental coverage led to 33% more spending, largely in the form of elective outpatient procedures (as opposed to emergency or other urgent, non-discretionary inpatient services).

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The question in this case is whether the President has the power, on his own, to set up military tribunals to try Hamdan and others on war crimes charges, whether the President may appoint the judges and jurors for the trial, set the procedures, and review the verdict, or whether the other two branches of government, the Congress and the courts, have a role to play.

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You may need additional procedures or treatments, as the opening sometimes heals over or other changes occur in your optic nerve.

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The point the UKBA is making is that London Met's procedures were not good enough to know one way or the other.

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But, the medical director of a large, prestigious employer in Eastern Mass told me that, for common procedures, he believes there are other hospitals with equally good or better outcomes records that charge substantially less.

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Stoma care refers to the care required by patients who have had colostomies and other similar procedures, in which a piece of the large intestine or colon is diverted to an opening in the abdominal wall, known as a stoma.

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For corporations, exceptionally and, for sellers, unnervingly and expensively long and pain-staking procurement or new project due diligence procedures, resulting, as often as not, in no decision, other than to require further study, would be another.

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