41.   Altchek also performed surgery on Sox third baseman John Valentin after Valentin ruptured his left patellar tendon.

42.   But Dr. David F. Torchiana, who performed the surgery, said Wardan got a chance he never had before.

43.   But Reardon and Cohn have performed the surgery on women with similar success rates as in male patients.

44.   But the doctor believed he was not obligated to tell patients whether he was infected with the AIDS virus, and continued to perform surgery.

45.   But the surgeries were performed at Cobb Hospital, and eventually he gained Medicaid benefits that paid for most of those costs and subsequent medical bills.

46.   But Westlake declines to do his own abridgments, noting that he had performed such surgery years ago to ready one of his books to run in a magazine.

47.   Cardiograms and medication followed, and two years ago, surgery was performed.

48.   Chiropractors cannot prescribe medicine or perform surgery.

49.   Clippers team doctor Tony Daly will perform the surgery.

50.   Comparable improvement came from the five hospitals in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont that perform heart surgery and that voluntarily cooperate to analyze their death rates.