Sentence examples for drastic procedure from inspiring English sources

Insurance companies paid for the costly and drastic procedure.

Mr. Ray joined Stich and was assigned at random to undergo a risky operation at Ohio State University Medical Center, which would include bypass surgery to improve blood flow to his heart muscle as well as a more drastic procedure: cutting open his heart to reshape it, get rid of some scar tissue and help it pump more efficiently.

The surgery, not commonly performed, did yield an 80percentto90percentcent reduction in cases and deaths from breast cancer -- but only 18 lives were saved, meaning that many of the women who had their breasts removed may have survived without the drastic procedure.

This procedure may be used as an alternative to ankle arthrodesis which, for this type of deformity, is a more drastic procedure.

Researchers have found interstellar dust grains in some less-altered meteorites by a drastic procedure: dissolving a specimen until all that remains are the hardy mineral bits condensed in the atmospheres of stars long ago--silicon carbide, graphite, and diamond.

(Not to mention the high fatality rate that such a drastic procedure would have incurred, given the medical capabilities of the time).

Surgeons call one of the more drastic procedures the "duodenal switch".

With any luck, the current breast implant scandal will make people think twice before undergoing such drastic procedures.

Though Cutler needed no drastic procedures during his newborn months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or N.I.C.U., at Minneapolis Children's Hospital, his parents were traumatized by the knowledge that his life hung daily in the balance, and by seeing how many other premature babies did not survive.

Considering the large numbers of people affected, if immunotherapy proves to be a suitable treatment for 10-15% of men with prostate cancer, it represents a significant step forward and the low toxicity gives hope that more drastic procedures may be avoidable at least for some patients if the further work to identify who will respond and who won't is successful.

These less drastic procedures that promise shorter recovery times and fewer risks, have now filtered down to the boomers' babies.