When one surgeon suggested that I start a "cancer diary" to help me process the process, I stifled the urge to laugh in his face.

Some surgeons suggest the use of stronger anti-coagulants.

First, Yeltsin's surgeon suggested that the Russian president's heart had suffered so much damage that it might not survive an urgently needed bypass operation.

"I expect you'll want to put this little episode into one of your books someday," the surgeon suggests breezily.

(If your surgeon suggests that a torn meniscus or tendon be removed, get a second opinion.)

The surgeons suggested that new branches were a better solution than enlarging the older ones.

The surgeon suggested to my sister that I could wear it in a sling to keep it out of the way.

In 1834, a British surgeon with the Royal Navy suggested a link between sanitation and disease.

The ship's surgeon, Makanee, had suggested he try sleeping in the old-fashioned way, drifting at the surface of a pool of water.

Veterinary surgeons suggested the virus must have been transmitted between the two locations by human error.