We want to make clear to patients, in an elective (non-emergency surgery) setting, that it's OK to discuss all this beforehand and ask, 'What's that gonna cost me?'

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

All he has ever done is discuss vertical face surgery, a technique he innovated, and articles have speculated that Stone had the procedure.

I figured I was still young enough to have relatively non-evasive surgery to get back to where I was. I can't forget about the big picture.

When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.

There was not a lot of second-guessing by Blue Cross. The hassle factor was almost zero,