Worse yet, some doctors, fearful of infection, have refused to perform Caesarean sections on H.I.V.-positive women, even though the procedure is crucial to reducing the risk of transmission to the child.
Even though the procedure is used in only a tiny fraction of cases, graphic descriptions of it since the mid-90's, and even the name its foes have given it (doctors call it dilation and extraction), have had an impact on young people.
After witnessing two operations and speaking to the president of the Shanghai Medical University, who himself had undergone two thyroid operations with acupuncture, Dr. Nuland comes away a believer — even though the procedure "has still not been explained in terms acceptable to most orthodox Western scientists using orthodox Western investigative methods".
Before he entered politics, he tried to bully a young woman into putting her baby up for adoption because she was unmarried; around the same time he berated a mother of five who was scheduled for a medically necessary very early abortion, even though the procedure had been approved by a church higher-up.
Even though the procedure ClosureFast is more expensive in an outpatient setting, cost savings occur due to a substitution of outpatient for inpatient treatments.
The oil giant had not run a "smart pig"–an electronic drone that detects corrosion through its eastern pipeline for 14 years, even though the procedure is cheap and deemed the most effective way to spot pipeline damage.
Finally, even though the procedure of discarding existing centers scales proportionally to the window size only, there is no need to check it at every sample in local stationary environments because they do not occur that fast nor all the time.
The oil giant had not run a "smart pig" — an electronic drone that detects corrosion — through its eastern pipeline for 14 years, even though the procedure is cheap and generally considered to be the most effective way to spot pipeline damage.
Even though the procedure had problems converging when fitting the Gamma with square root link, this did not present a problem for the other four statistical models.
Furthermore, even though the procedure in Noh et al. is robust, there is a severe loss of information from the case-only design.
