Consistent with longstanding practice and his request, Mr. Ballmer does not participate in the equity component of the Incentive Plan.

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The results of this study reinforce practice beliefs which many physical therapists express when patients often request arthroscopic knee surgery to repair these injuries: surgery may not always be the most prudent initial approach to deal with his situation.

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As the Senate in Brazil debates reform of abortion laws, the body that regulates medical practice has for the first time backed the legalisation of abortion on request.

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Each year the newspaper approaches the legal affairs departments of companies and major law firms, including foreign firms, with a request to vote for two lawyers in each of certain practice areas whose performances during the year have made particularly important contributions to producing successes.

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Scot Glasberg, a plastic surgeon in private practice in New York, says a major reason women get a second surgery is that they request it.

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But what you may not know is that these reductions were based on a survey conducted by the American Medical Association, at the request of the CMS, that seemed to go out of its way to omit cardiologists in private practice from the survey participants.

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