fusions

• “Celebrity couple name fusions, or uninames, are ubiquitous, if not completely predictable, these days.”

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• “And so he's working with this group called the Heliocentrics that has also done these kind of fusions of jazz music and world music.”

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• “When no telomere is present, attempts to replicate this uncapped end may be responsible for the apparent "fusions" of the replicated chromatids at the position of the previous break as well as for perpetuating the chromatid type of breakage-fusion-bridge cycle in successive mitoses.”

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• “In 16 of those cases, he performed a total of 24 additional fusions.”

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• “The newspaper then tallied how many times each patient had additional fusions by the surgeon who performed his or her earliest fusion.”

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• “Often, spine surgeons will perform additional spinal fusions on a patient when the first surgery failed to fuse the vertebrae or when a disk adjacent to the fused vertebrae wears out because of the added stress placed on it.”

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• “With a rate of 39 additional fusions per 100 initial fusions, Dr. Vishal James Makker of Portland, Ore., had by far the highest rate among surgeons who performed spinal fusions on 20 or more Medicare patients in the 2008-09 period.”

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• “Five more Medicare patients had three separate spinal fusions performed by Dr. Makker, the data show.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries

• “The Medicare data show that Dr. Makker performed seven separate spinal fusions on one patient in less than two years.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries

• “Because the Journal only has access to two years' worth of the hospital billing database, it is impossible to know whether patients in the sample underwent spinal fusions prior to 2008 or after 2009.”

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