Sentence examples for perform surgical from inspiring English sources

The F.D.A. was said to want only doctors who can perform surgical abortions to prescribe RU-486.

The F.D.A. is said to want only doctors who are trained to perform surgical abortions to prescribe RU-486.

Robotic surgery, in medicine, the use of machines guided by doctors to perform surgical procedures.

Representative Tom Coburn of Oklahoma will introduce legislation to limit the use of the drug to doctors who currently perform surgical abortions, thus depriving women of easier access.

He also lacks the training to provide anything beyond basic care, or the equipment to perform surgical procedures.

But the new California law goes further, allowing a wider range of nonphysician practitioners to perform surgical abortions.

But the restrictions could limit access to the drug -- if, for example, the government stipulated that doctors who prescribe RU-486 must be able to handle complications resulting from its use, or must be trained to perform surgical abortions.

But people familiar with negotiations between the F.D.A. and the sponsor of RU-486, which is also known as mifepristone, say the agency is considering taking several unusual steps, including restricting prescribing privileges to doctors who perform surgical abortions.

It would mandate that the doctors know how to read sonograms, know how to perform surgical abortions and maintain admitting privileges at a hospital no more than an hour from their offices.

In many other parts of the country, doctors who want to perform surgical abortions have to go out of their way to learn how.

Under our laws they are not trained to perform surgical abortions, although they can provide assistance as part of a clinical team.