11.   Rampersad said Jhagroo also practiced at the Brooklyn Hospital Center and had a thriving practice that was especially popular among other Guyanese people.

12.   She said she was struggling to balance the care of two children with a thriving practice and seriously considered the offer.

13.   Some of the top surgeons who toiled in Soviet plastic surgery assembly lines for factory-worker wages are building thriving private practices.

14.   They said Dr. Valera Costello, a native of the Philippines, had a thriving practice at home and in Stuyvesant Town, in lower Manhattan.