1.   I wonder how many years unqualified people could pass themselves off as consultant thoracic surgeons, for example, without detection.

2.   Dineen called for an ambulance, and sent out word to find Berger, a top thoracic surgeon, and get him to Mass. General right away.

3.   For every professional player in Chicago or Europe or South America, there was a thoracic surgeon or a tax lawyer.

4.   For example, thoracic surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh oncology department recently began using a Smart Cycler to test tissue surrounding throat-cancer tumors during surgery.

5.   Lazic, the thoracic surgeon, blamed the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force for the attack, but said there must have been a mistake.

6.   The Cobbs were referred to Dr. Joseph Miller, a thoracic surgeon at Emory.

7.   The same ban will apply to anesthesiologists, emergency-room physicians, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and thoracic surgeons in the rest of the country.

8.   A former thoracic surgeon convicted and given a suspended jail sentence Friday for the manslaughter death of a patient on his operating table will appeal the verdict.

9.   But Dr. Garrett Walsh, a thoracic surgeon at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said the racial gap may be an oversimplification.