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  • The entire bill, including surgeon's fees, anesthesiologist's fees, 2 nights in the hospital in a private room, pain killers and other meds, x-rays and the usual blood tests came to $40,000 or about $3000.

    Health care not easy 2010

  • The entire bill, including surgeon's fees, anesthesiologist's fees, 2 nights in the hospital in a private room, pain killers and other meds, x-rays and the usual blood tests came to $40,000 or about $3000.

    Health care not easy 2010

  • Two nurses in Wisconsin were fired after allegedly taking phonecam shots of a patient's x-rays depicting a sex toy stuck in his rectum.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • No deductibles, no pre-existing conditions. they only made a test for blood pressure, took a sample of blood, urine and x-rays and I was in.

    Complicated Car Permit Question 2009

  • My relatives on the east coast sponsored me, had a background check, x-rays and some money in the bank.

    Outspoken sheriff won't run for governor in Arizona 2010

  • Nurses fired for taking photos of patient's x-rays (of his rectum, complete with lodged object)

    Boing Boing 2009

  • CT scans, MRIs and x-rays indicated I did not have a malignancy anywhere in my body, and a year later, I was told I could try to have another baby.

    Nancy Cronk: In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness Nancy Cronk 2011

  • I feel as if someone has snuck up behind me and draped me with one of those protective lead aprons you have to wear at the dentist during x-rays.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • CT scans, MRIs and x-rays indicated I did not have a malignancy anywhere in my body, and a year later, I was told I could try to have another baby.

    Nancy Cronk: In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness Nancy Cronk 2011

  • The continuum is unbroken through the introduction of x-rays, the work of the Curies, radium watch dial painting, definitive links to childhood leukemia, and more.

    Harvey Wasserman: 2012 Is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power Harvey Wasserman 2012

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