1.   Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told of one woman who had the procedure done after discovering her fetus had no brain.

2.   A procedure was done to unblock his arteries.

3.   He had a procedure done to unclog his arteries.

4.   Not all procedures were done in every patient.

5.   Twenty eight procedures were done in two to four stages.

6.   In high risk patients, dilatation was initially done under fluoroscopic control, subsequently in most patients the procedure was done without the fluoroscopy.

7.   Although other doctors had performed a similar surgery earlier, those procedures were done under emergency conditions after patients deteriorated on the operating table.

8.   And after consulting with her insurance company, Dickey arranged to have the procedure done at the Advanced Surgery Center of Georgia, an outpatient facility in Canton.

9.   And no, nobody at Fox asked her to have the procedure done.

10.   As HMOs and private insurers limit payments to doctors, some doctors may try to maintain their income by doing more procedures on an outpatient basis.