The Greek Galen was one of the greatest surgeons of the ancient world and performed many audacious operations — including brain and eye surgeries — that were not tried again for almost two millennia.

# Natural Selection ( February 3, 1991 ) – While holding a cocktail party for some of the wealthier people in his constituency, Alan receives shocking news: after years of neglecting his constituents — refusing to answer their letters or meet with them, and never holding surgeries – he has been deselected as the Tory candidate for Haltemprice.

Cisneros ’ collaboration with his wife in caring for John Paul — who later recovered to flourish in school after several major surgeries — brought the two back together.

The hospital received additional honors for cardiac care, cardiovascular surgeries, infectious care, knee-hip orthopaedics and pulmonary care — all five specialties are also ranked within the top 10 in the nation.

Thoracotomy is a major surgical maneuver — it is the first step in many thoracic surgeries including lobectomy or pneumonectomy for lung cancer — and as such requires general anesthesia with endotracheal tube insertion and mechanical ventilation.

In the 2009 fiscal year, The Anti-Cruelty Society's spay / neuter clinic — one of the highest volume spay / neuter clinics in the country — performed over 12, 000 surgeries.

In 2008, the Africa Mercy continued its service to Liberia — offering free surgeries, assistance in healthcare infrastructure development, and community-based preventive health care programs that benefited thousands of individuals and many communities.

In 2007 Rullo shattered his femur in competition ; which resulted in several surgeries and a year of rehabilitation — putting him out of competition for two years.

In 2007, he was sidelined for nearly six years after five surgeries — three on his hip, one on his elbow, and one sports hernia — and did not play on the tour again until 2011.

This could be giving advice about treating the problem at home, suggesting a visit to a pharmacist, or advising an appointment with their GP, which, if in the out of hours period ( when the GP surgeries are closed ), can possibly be arranged over the phone.

Madison has spoken openly about her cosmetic surgeries, having had both a rhinoplasty and breast augmentation.

In general, endoscopic techniques are as effective as traditional open carpal surgeries, though the faster recovery time typically noted in endoscopic procedures is felt by some to possibly be offset by higher complication rates.

The city has 20 years performing open heart surgeries, heart and kidney transplants ( USA performed 28 years ago ).

During the last decade many modern specialty services in medical care have been developed in the institution for kidney transplants, complex open heart surgeries, neurosurgical procedures and modern cancer treatment options.

Under changes made to the provision of Health Care, Burmantofts will receive a ' super surgery ', so far such large surgeries have opened in Bradford and Wetherby, they are open 365 days a year for long hours and serve many more patients then standard surgeries.

Therefore, they can be used for several kinds of surgeries which hitherto have been carried out by open or endoscopic surgery, such as for trigeminal neuralgia, etc.

This work includes actions against the police for misconduct, representation and advocacy, training, information dissemination, a helpline, and open surgeries.

He was present at the Mayo around the time they were performing early open heart surgeries in the mid-1950s.

The Park and St Peter's neighbourhood policing teams are based there and work from out of the building, although it is not open to the public, apart from for specific police surgeries.

There are two different types of surgeries ; open surgery and percutaneous surgery.

Unfortunately, because the inner ear deals with both balance and hearing, few surgeries guarantee no hearing loss.

Nondestructive surgeries include those which do not actively remove any functionality, but rather aim to improve the way the ear works.

Conversely, destructive surgeries are irreversible and involve removing entire functionality of most, if not all, of the affected ear.

The ear defect or deformity to be corrected determines the otoplasty techniques and procedures to be applied, thus, a torn earlobe can be repaired solely with sutures ; a slight damage to the rim of the pinna ( outer ear ) might be repaired with an autologous skin graft harvested from the scalp, yet conversely, a proper ear reconstruction might require several surgeries.

He has had four surgeries to repair the damage and is still 100 % deaf in his left ear, but he made an otherwise full recovery.

Occasionally these basic procedures are complemented further with feminizing cosmetic surgeries or procedures that modify bone or cartilage structures, typically in the jaw, brow, forehead, nose and cheek areas ( facial feminization surgery or FFS ).

When the surgeries are complete, she will have the chin of Botticelli ’ s Venus, the nose of Jean-Léon Gérôme's Psyche, the lips of François Boucher ’ s Europa, the eyes of Diana ( as depicted in a 16th-century French School of Fontainebleu painting ), and the forehead of Leonardo da Vinci ’ s Mona Lisa.

During his various surgeries, doctors carved bone, tissue and skin from his back, arm, and legs, and transplanted them in an attempt to reconstruct his jaw and throat, though these transplants would each be unsuccessful, and eventually removed.

He underwent numerous surgeries, biopsies, and radiation treatments on his throat and vocal cords, which resulted in lifelong impairment to his voice.

There is also the risk of the removed tissue growing back, or of scar tissue blocking the throat, both requiring further surgeries, though with the incisional technique, the risk of fibrosis is virtually eliminated.

Through providing health education in communities, training local staff, setting up specialist referral services and refurbishing hospitals and surgeries, LEPRA is working alongside vulnerable communities to help put people ’ s health in their own hands.

Other terms in use, apart from female circumcision, include female genital cutting ( FGC ), female genital surgeries, female genital alteration, female genital excision, and female genital modification.

Affected individuals may need multiple surgeries ( such as reduction surgery, or Gamma knife surgery ), depending on where the tumors are located.

In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers to the automotive industry in order to sell low-quality connectors used for instance in safety equipment such as airbags, bribes paid by suppliers to manufacturers of defibrillators ( to sell low-quality capacitors ), contributions paid by wealthy parents to the " social and culture fund " of a prestigious university in exchange for it to accept their children, bribes paid to obtain diplomas, financial and other advantages granted to unionists by members of the executive board of a car manufacturer in exchange for employer-friendly positions and votes, etc.

* Sufentanil ( trade name Sufenta ), a potent analgesic ( five to 10 times more potent than fentanyl ) for use in specific surgeries and surgery in heavily opioid-tolerant / opioid-dependent patients.

Sedation is now typically used in procedures such as endoscopy, vasectomy, RSI ( Rapid Sequence Intubation ), or minor surgery and in dentistry for reconstructive surgery, some cosmetic surgeries, removal of wisdom teeth, or for high-anxiety patients.

Bud's parents are disappointed by, and ashamed of, his older sister, Ginny ( Barbara Loden ), a flapper and party girl who is sexually promiscuous, smokes, drinks, has had an abortion ( or as Deanie's mother said " one of those ' awful surgeries '"), and a marriage annulled, so they " pin all their hopes " on Bud, pressuring him to attend Yale University.

Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries such as joint replacement ( knee / hip ), cardiac surgery, dental surgery, and cosmetic surgeries.

Tidworth has a small commercial area, containing: 2 supermarkets ( a Lidl and a large Tesco opened in December 2007 ), 2 hairdresser salons, 2 veterinary surgeries and various takeaway outlets.

Many of these people have had additional incisional surgeries like Astigmatic Keratotomy ( AK ), where incisions are placed at the steepest points of the cornea in people with astigmatism so as to relax and transform the cornea to a more spherical shape.

Services typically sought by travelers include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries such as joint replacement ( knee / hip ), cardiac surgery, dental surgery, and cosmetic surgeries.

The ACOG doubted the medical safety and the therapeutic efficacy of the surgical techniques and procedures for performing labiaplasty, vaginal rejuvenation, the designer vagina, revirgination, and Gräfenberg Spot amplification, and recommended that women seeking such genitoplastic surgeries must be fully informed, with the available surgical-safety statistics, of the potential health risks of surgical-wound infection, of pudendal nerve damage ( resulting in either an insensitive or an over-sensitive vulva ), of dyspareunia ( painful coitus ), of tissue adhesions ( epidermoid cysts ), and of painful scars.

Of course as surgeries are intrusive and damage healthy tissue ( e. g. leaving behind scar tissue or possibly even causing blepharitis ), given other options, less intrusive treatment is always preferable.

More recent clinical applications can be seen at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where Deep Brain Stimulation ( DBS ), Pallidotomy and Thalamotomy are surgeries used to treat Parkinson ’ s disease.

This may result from many factors, including bulging disc, herniated disc or fragments from previously herniated discs ( post-operative ), scar tissue from previous surgeries, osteophytes ( bone spurs that jut out from the edge of a vertebra into the foramen, the opening through which the nerve root passes ).

Medical history is usually divided into surgical history ( all prior surgeries ), social history ( sexual, recreational, and alcohol / drug factors ), family history ( heritable diseases and conditions and their presence in family members ), and health or personal health history ( the subject's prior illnesses, together with their treatments and outcomes ).

* Performs more than 13, 900 pediatric surgeries a year, including more than 850 cardiothoracic surgeries ( heart, lung and heart-lung transplants ), 550 cardio-catheterizations ; 650 neurosurgeries ; and 1, 570 orthopaedic surgeries