21.   Refusing to have the surgery, she read everything she could about fibroids, and about the growing evidence that the traditional hysterectomy is unnecessary in such situations.

22.   Some surgeons say endoscopic surgery has its own risks, though.

23.   Supposedly, those surgeries had nothing to do with the tendon damage that was discovered last week.

24.   Take it from me, who is scheduled for surgery to have fingers sewn together.

25.   Such surgery often has to be repeated, because the disease tends to recur in areas adjacent to those removed.

26.   Surgery did have one benefit.

27.   The longer he waits, the more extensive the surgery will have to be.

28.   The proof of cataract surgery is in the seeing, and most cataract specialists say phaco surgery has the edge.

29.   Then, without warning, my husband developed an aneurysm, had brain surgery, and came home to recuperate.

30.   Why does surgery have an allure that a pill cannot match?