The patients were anesthetized, and then positioned supine on theoperatingtable.
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Here were a woodenoperatingtableand chloroform and ether apparatus.
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The wealthy were put on theoperatingtablenot because they needed medical attention, but because they were able to foot the doctor's bill.
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I have been on theoperatingtablea number of times during the past couple of years.
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Doctors among us have fallen asleep at theoperatingtable.
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I once made the unseemly suggestion that the only place for a lawyer in a hospital was on theoperatingtable.
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Sometimes there are fatalities on theoperatingtable.
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For example, the man who suffers brain damage—through no one's fault—on theoperatingtableis compensated.
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When discussing our cases at the bottom of our beds or while we are on theoperatingtable, the professional men frequently argue about the best course of action.
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The treatment of the lady who found herself in a dentist's chair rather than on a properoperatingtable and suffered accordingly took place in a ground-floor office.
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It is unfortunate, when there is industrial unrest from time to time and when a patient dies on theoperatingtable, that the communication media publicise it to the hilt.
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Does he recommend another blood transfusion of taxpayers' money or theoperatingtable, or does he intend to sit back and wait for a decent funeral?
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I do not believe that it is because they think that the patient will not survive on theoperatingtableand the cheque will not be honoured.
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That little girl was strapped to theoperatingtable, with four distraught and weeping nurses holding her down while the surgeon did his magnificent best through his tears.
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Is there not a danger that such an arrangement would make the patients who had suffered accidents on theoperatingtableobjects of resentment among patients who had not?
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