You slide a small camera—a laparoscope—into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.
You can adjust the operating table so that the patient’s head is down and his feet are up, allowing gravity to pull the viscera in the right direction.
As I went along, I compared my results against national data, and I began beating the averages.
But I peaked at seventeen.
That was the year that Danny Trevas and I climbed to the top tier for doubles in the Ohio Val...
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