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Top athletes and singers have coaches.
- 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...