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There are so many things that go into a surgical study.
Nicole Ari Parker / Film Actress
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Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
Richard Burton / Actor
Cool
Brilliant
Clarity
Days
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Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.
Cole Younger /
Our Lives
Receiving
Jim
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What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.
Gordon Gee /
Foot
Mouth
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A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
Paul Kalanithi /
Judged
Sloppy
Speed
Technique
Resident
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A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Conor Oberst / Singer-Songwriter
Blunt
Bombs
Boycott
Carpet
Imperfect
Weapons
Prefer
Bomb
Inherently
Instrument
Weapon
Strike
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I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'
Howie Mandel / Comedian
Gloves
Please
Doctor
Inflate
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People are with our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, with regard to the surgical strike on black money. They are not with the opposition parties.
Tamilisai Soundararajan /
Prime Minister
Regard
Money Black People
Minister
Strike
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I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
Elaine Stritch / Actress
Aging
Progress
Stuff
Naturally
Fascinates
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Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Due
Incorrect
Needless
Preventable
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Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.
Joel Fuhrman / M.d.
Doctors
Evidence
Nutrition
Procedures
Recommendations
Scientific Evidence
Positions
Scientific
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
Fields
Rotation
Walks
World Class
Does
Nobody
Demanding
Operating
Room
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We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.
Nancy Dubuc /
Partners
Tailored
Sure
Close
Dealing
Making
Producing
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle / Cryptographer
Cellular
Damage
Disease
Ill
Tools
Caused
Largely
Molecular
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I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done... that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away.
David Draiman / Songwriter
Acid
Burned
Done
Stomach
Valve
Away
Procedure
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
Ralph Merkle / Cryptographer
Manufacturing
Tools
Directly
Let Us
Molecular
Root
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So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
Aisha Tyler / Actress
Life Is
Radio
Three
Spot
Quick
Strangers
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There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.
Simon Mcburney / Actor
Beckett
Bottom
Endgame
Hopeful
Remains
Strips
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I saw my mother go through surgical menopause, and at 35, I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for the complications, like bone loss as a result of early menopause, that my mother had.
Camille Grammer / Television Personality
Menopause
Bone
Complications
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My work is entirely surgical, and Col. Starr has given me a very interesting task of collecting nerve cases that have had the nerves sewn together. I may also do some experimental work for him.
Frederick Banting / Medical Doctor
Cases
Collecting
Work Together Me
Entirely
Nerve
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Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
Ben Carson /
Faith
Medical
Difficult
Inspired
My Own
Procedures
Scare
Steadfast
God Faith Myself
Perform
Extremely
Faced
Particularly
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Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.
Dean Ornish / Physician
Health
Health Reform
Incentives
Meaningful
Needs
Physicians
Teach
Patients
Primarily
Professionals
Provide
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I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.
Norman Swan /
Bleeding
First Place
Staunch
Surgeon
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
J. J. Abrams / Television Producer
Drama
Insane
Devastating
Action Drama Comedy
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Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.
Sam Kean / Writer
Active
Brain
Brain Surgery
Patient
Surgery
Team
Voice
Above
Guide
Important Part
Perhaps
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Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
Bob Barr / Former United States Representative
War
Iran
Long Term
Military
Moving
Ramifications
Calls
Total
Extremely
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Worldwide
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Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.
Ivan Pavlov / Physiologist
Animal
Blood
Digestion
Loss
Physiology
Scream
Thanks
Almost All
Demonstrate
Drop
Phenomena
Experiment
Methods
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Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Housing
Increase
Management
Regulation
Risk Management
Stronger
Supervision
Bubble
Effective
Interest Rates
Practices
Rates
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
Daniel Akaka /
Aids
Animal
Cancer
Host
Medicine
Promise
Research
Tuberculosis
Fight
Diseases
Fundamental
Life-Threatening
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You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
Atul Gawande / Surgeon
Practise
Skills
Admit
Ensure
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Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
Richard Lamm / Former Governor Of Colorado
Aging
Sophisticated
Advanced
Bodies
Concept
Infinitely
Marginal
Procedure
Surgical
Treatments
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson / Writer
Brothers And Sisters
Cracked
Only Child
Ran
Supplies
Brothers
Sisters
Shop
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When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Ready
Backing
Campaign
Deployed
Matters
Follow
Forces
Launch
Lined
Operation
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A 'reptilian revolution' has the potential to reshape manufacturing. The 'snakebots' being developed at Carnegie Mellon University aren't just useful for surgical or search-and-rescue purposes. They could also usher in a new, more customized era of mass production.
Kelly Evans /
Manufacturing
Mass
Mass Production
Revolution
Purposes
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What we're doing in San Francisco and what we're doing with other criminal justice partners across the state and across the country is anything but indiscriminate. We are being careful. We are being focused and surgical in our efforts to decrease the jail population.
Chesa Boudin /
Careful
Criminal Justice
Decrease
Jail
Partners
Population
San Francisco
Criminal
Efforts
Francisco
Indiscriminate
San
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It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Brain
Hemisphere
Massive
People
Removal
Song
Speech
Strokes
Swear
Taboo
Articulate
Cliches
Entire
Likely
Lyrics
Stored
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Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
Ken Goldberg / Artist
Decades
Experts
Feats
Flying
Helicopters
New Approach
Observing
Online
Program
Robots
Signing
Tasks
Attempts
Perform
Complex
Motions
Recording
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Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.
Alexis Carrel / Surgeon
Medical
Chicago
Human Beings
Little Money
Practice
Standpoint
Work Business Money
Beings
Dogs
Great Deal
Operate
Perhaps
Scientific
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You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.
Brendan Iribe /
Seconds
Somewhere Else
App
Exhibit
Museum
Surgical
Video Game
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Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.
Henry Gray /
Knowledge
Science
Accurate
Anatomy
Application
Important
Medicine
Practice
Regions
Surgery
More
Branch
Consisting
Student
Essential
Generally
Having
Reference
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I do feel like 'The Dark Knight' is a great film, but that Batman in there? He's almost like Robocop to me. He's almost robotic looking; he's got this surgical approach to everything... He's almost not human. That's supposed to be his whole point: he's supposed to be the most human of superheroes.
Lee Bermejo /
Great Film
Great Me Feel
Batman
Great Me Looking
Robotic
Superheroes
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I was bought up as a boy. I don't blame my parents in the slightest since it was just an unfortunate timing in many ways, in other ways it was very fortunate. If I'd been born 20 years earlier, there wouldn't have been the surgical techniques to correct the deformity and by the time I was of an age, they did exist. I was very lucky.
Lady Colin Campbell /
Blame
Born
Deformity
Fortunate
Lucky
Timing
Unfortunate
Since
Boy
Bought
By The Time
Correct
Exist
Earlier
Parents
Slightest
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Techniques
Ways
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