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  • Doctors and Lawyers (with some technology competent exceptions, like patent lawyers or laproscopic physicians) are pretty horrible business people, at least compared to information technology professionals, and then financial services workers.

    Why No Electronic Medical Records?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Anyone familiar with laproscopic cholecystectomies knows that an acute or chroniclly inflamed gallbladder can adhere itself to the intestine.

    Was medical error to blame for Rep. Murtha's death? 2010

  • I have endometriosis and have had three laproscopic surgeries.

    Refined 2009

  • My best example when 'suck it up' is a good policy sticks with the appendectomy cases: after a laproscopic procedure the air used to inflate the abdomen is removed as best as possible.

    why suffer when you don't have to? 2009

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I had full laproscopic gastric bypass surgery.

    CNN Transcript May 4, 2009 2009

  • Sounds like you might be having laproscopic surgery for endometriosis.

    Considering the Uterus Jen 2009

  • A famous 2004 study by researchers at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, found that video games improve manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination: "Doctors who spend at least 3 hours a week playing video games," the researchers reported, "made about 37% fewer mistakes in laproscopic surgery."

    Teenage Zombies 2008

  • So, the whole process was a bit like laproscopic surgery where the roof is large and the window is teeny and the rake is long and I am upstairs inside the house, standing five feet away from the open window trying to get a good angle so that I can push the last pile of snow off the far end.

    abada abada › emergencies, averted? 2008

  • I recently learned that in some hospitals they even have robots (yes, they call them this) doing the laproscopic procedures because they are able to do many more angles of rotation of the scope where our wrists and hands can only turn a certain number of degrees.

    my atavism ran over your buddhism 2007

  • The surgeons told me that it was a very successful laproscopic keyhole procedure.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Bill Kerr 2007

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