Word: operationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While his operation goes against the general thinking in cardiac surgery, Batista believes he is just respecting nature's laws. He developed his ideas by studying the hearts of animals he found on his horse farm near the Angelina Caron Hospital, where he works. To his astonishment, the heart of...
Batista's income is as modest as his clinic. He receives about $80 for performing each heart procedure; a doctor in a U.S. hospital would charge about $50,000 to perform the same operation. When he gets paid to talk at a conference, he donates the fee to charity. Foreign...
Earlier this year, a team of University of Chicago physicians led by Ernest and surgeon Dr. Samir Patel performed a complex operation on Pearl Van Vliet, a retired medical-center receptionist who was suffering from the same condition that had deprived Ernest's father of his sight. That disease is...
In a delicate procedure that lasted more than two hours, Ernest and his team tried a new and hopeful approach to macular degeneration. They first took cells from the retina of an aborted fetus, then surgically transplanted them into Van Vliet's severely impaired left eye. Since the operation, the...
An international sting operation has netted over 1,500 child pornographers operating on the Internet (Netly News)