But the surgeon who would perform the operation did not examine the patient until 7:40 P.M. and only after several orthopedic residents expressed concern that the long wait meant the patient would lose both his legs.

She was introduced in season two, as a senior orthopedic resident, as a love interest for intern George O'Malley (T.R. Knight).

The bride is a pediatric resident at the Mount Sinai Medical Center; the bridegroom is an orthopedic resident at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

The bride, 30, is the chief orthopedic resident at the State University Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

Dr. Furia, 29, is an orthopedic resident at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

The bridegroom, 27, is an orthopedic resident at the N.Y.U. Hospital for Joint Diseases in Manhattan.

Mary Ellen Jacquelin Piccotti, an operating-room nurse at Alexandria (Va.) Hospital, was married yesterday to Dr. William Henry De Vries, an orthopedic resident at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington.

Dr. Simon, 27, is an orthopedic resident at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York.

The bride, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James W. Smith of Greenwich, Conn., is an orthopedic resident at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Dr. Charles de Marco, an orthopedic resident who said he was in the examining room, said Mr. Garcia's cast fell to the floor just before he lunged at Officer Grajales.