21.   Initially, the two doctors operated through a small uterine hole, using tiny instruments and a miniature camera as a guide.

22.   Lawyers for the three doctors asked Wilk to reduce the damages.

23.   Later, after a shift in the clinic, Holland and the other doctors clattered into a small back office for a soda.

24.   Mrs. Fasano then seemed to address Nash and the other two doctors.

25.   None of the three doctors had ever encountered its like, either.

26.   Not only did it initiate the field of physiology, but it also introduced the principle of experimentation in medicine, the two doctors say.

27.   Peers at Beth Israel spoke highly of the three doctors.

28.   So the more doctors charge, the more a patient and his lawyer are likely to get.

29.   That prospect should be more than a little troubling for the two doctors.

30.   The clinic is operated by Medicenter Inc. of Lawton, Okla., which provides the five doctors.