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  • We met with patients in the pre-operative room who were waiting their turn -- one of whom was 45 years old and had been suffering from a fistula for 12 years.

    Christy Turlington: Back to Bangladesh - Day 3 Christy Turlington 2011

  • We met with patients in the pre-operative room who were waiting their turn -- one of whom was 45 years old and had been suffering from a fistula for 12 years.

    Christy Turlington: Back to Bangladesh - Day 3 Christy Turlington 2011

  • If you are unable to come to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for a tour prior to the day of surgery, visit www. kidshealthgalaxy.com, our Web site for kids, to view an animated pre-operative tour.

    Preparation prior to medical experiences helps kids cope 2010

  • The quasi-musical offers a tour of Lisbon's drag community, where a pre-operative transsexual performer wrestles with a life-changing decision.

    Truths and Frictions Steve Dollar 2010

  • In January, they returned to Children's Hospital a few days before surgery for a pre-operative visit.

    Ventricular Septal Defect -- Nora's Story 2010

  • Child life staff offer pre-operative preparation prior to your child's Day Surgery experience.

    Preparation prior to medical experiences helps kids cope 2010

  • He was assuming Jabari's companion was pre-operative, though that wasn't necessarily the case; Ayatollah Khomeini, no less, had issued a startlingly enlightened fatwa in the eighties, declaring that gender reassignment surgery was a perfectly acceptable practice.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • As part of its liberalization, the government Thursday also allowed conversion of non-cash items such as the import of capital goods, machinery and pre-operative or pre-incorporation expenses into equity with approval from the government.

    India Eases Foreign Investment Rules Subhadip Sircar 2011

  • Son Michael Harmony Santana regularly shows up at local poetry slams dressed as a woman named Vanessa, who spits painful poetic lines about his/her dilemma in dealing with being pre-operative transgender.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Gun Hill Road Marshall Fine 2011

  • His mother, Mercia Doughty, had worked as a nurse at Newark hospital, whose new endoscopy centre and pre-operative assessment unit he helped fund with a £1m donation.

    Nigel Doughty obituary 2012

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