1.   Two American surgeons were last week honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.

2.   But American surgeons have lost some of their initial enthusiasm for the operation.

3.   But the American surgeon leading the operation admitted there was no guarantee of preventing the transfer of a potentially dangerous baboon virus into humans.

4.   I became very close to this American surgeon.

5.   In addition to the two American surgeons, there was one each from Colombia, Singapore, the Philippines, China and Hong Kong.

6.   Now, how did this Haitian man living on the island of Eleuthera come to meet the American surgeon?

7.   These days when the Russian president has heart problems, an American surgeon is summoned to Moscow to help diagnose the ailment.

8.   American surgeons would castrate all Japanese males, went one tale.

9.   APTV has the American surgeon who advised on the operation saying it was a complete success.

10.   Carjackers shot and killed an American surgeon in the capital of this East African nation Monday after forcing him out of his car, police said.