It's no accident that so many Americans are turning to life-threatening surgery to solve life-long weight problems.

It's not unlike waiting for a loved one to come out of life-threatening surgery.

Like his main character, Mr. Brooks has had what he described as an out-of-body experience during life-threatening surgery.

Drops of perspiration beaded on her face as though she were performing the most intricate and life-threatening surgery.

However, as Tara's brain tumour grows and becomes symptomatic, she is persuaded to have life-threatening surgery to reduce it.

It was his eighth life-threatening surgery in 22 years.

Her itch subsided completely and she avoided life-threatening surgery.

She is aware that Kazama has a terminal illness and wants him to take the life-threatening surgery that would save his life.

She was spared the life-threatening surgery that the actor Christopher Reeve, for one, was forced to undergo after his own 1995 horseback riding accident.

The idea that someone would actually tinker with their memory to 'erase' a relationship is like having life-threatening elective surgery to remove a single eyebrow hair.