"I tried to explain a procedure to a patient and I got very confused".
Gordon Fischer, Iowa's Democratic Party chairman, has likened the caucus procedure to a session of "sixth-grade gym".
When the president of Russia offers a medical procedure to a journalist, the journalist is in no doubt whatsoever as to how the procedure will be performed.
Recently, a local television station secretly filmed a hospital official trying to sell a double-jaw procedure to a woman.
But just as makeover shows enumerate a person's purported faults before correcting them, a person who offers a cosmetic procedure to a loved one may implicitly criticize the recipient's looks.
Yet the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority HFEAA), which regulates fertility treatments in Britain, found that when it explained the procedure to a sample of the British public, most were in favour.
All but one patient would recommend the procedure to a friend.
The system utilizes the common endoscopy procedure to a insert a flexible robot into hard to reach places inside the human body.
This demonstrates the applicability of the UTAGMS elicitation procedure to a very complex decision problem.
Finally, an application of the proposed design procedure to a large-scale mechanical system is presented.
Of the 61 patients, 51 (83.6%) were satisfied and would recommend the procedure to a friend.
