1.   Surgeons have had to remove portions of his stomach and intestine.

2.   The extra speed and wide reach of the service means more patients reach hospital within the so-called Golden Hour, when surgeons have a better chance of saving life.

3.   Surgeons had to put three stitches in a deep wound in his shoulder.

4.   She was so badly burned that surgeons had to amputate her left hand.

5.   Because fibrin glue is fairly new to the cosmetic-surgery arena, very few surgeons have yet to embrace it.

6.   A busy night on trauma duty could mean a surgeon has to put off elective cases the next morning so he can sleep.

7.   A surgeon had to control that device with foot pedals.

8.   According to the neurosurgery department at the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in Brazil, these surgeons had a considerable knowledge of anatomy and natural medicine.

9.   After two strokes, two bypass operations and a staph infection so severe his surgeon had to rebuild his chest, his own heart was almost useless.