41.   Just as with the first heart transplants, surgeons will be willing to attempt xenotransplants, if they see it as an option to save their patients.

42.   Many surgeons were entranced by the visually compelling procedure, but skeptical of its final results.

43.   Neither paragons nor pariahs, spin surgeons are no scarier than any group.

44.   Not all the surgeons are equally capable.

45.   Officials there declined to say Wednesday whether the surgeons were successful.

46.   One important reason surgeons may be reluctant to rush to do minimally invasive bypasses is a general reluctance to operate on a beating heart.

47.   Once they open him up, surgeons hopefully will be able to repair the damaged mitral valve by sewing or other techniques.

48.   Plastics surgeons were in particular demand, said Louis Marcos, president of Bellevue Hospital.

49.   Perhaps every surgeon should be prepared for the day that his heavily sedated patient leaps off the table to go on a suture rampage.

50.   She explained that surgeons are dependent on referrals for patients, and many doctors will not send their patients to a female heart surgeon.