Redknapp admitted that if Woodgate does go under the knife, he will be sidelined for a considerable length of time.

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Caletti, who'd heard horror stories about the scarring and failure rates common to sinus surgery, was reluctant to go under the knife.

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Now she wonders whether Lahey gave Paul all the information he needed to make a smart decision about whether to go under the knife.

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According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, more than 500, 000 people go under the knife each year to have arthritic and damaged knees replaced.

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The divorce frees them to finally go under the knife.

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Sir Bruce also said cosmetic surgery deals, such as buy-one-get-one-free offers and handing out free breast surgery as prizes in raffles, were a "particularly distasteful" way of incentivising people to go under the knife.

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But he was then told he would have to go under the knife a fortnight later, by which time his absence had caused Bradford to go on a spectacular nosedive, losing 11 Super League games in a row.

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Some will say that your lifestyle of excess over the years led you to this point, and that it's lazy to go under the knife to resolve such a dramatic problem rather than bear down, hit the treadmill and do it the hard way.

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