If Walton Lillehei was a gunslinger in the operating theater, he led a gunslinger's life outside it as well.

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Another monastery was called an operating theater, but there were no medical supplies.

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When she was not in the hospital for further bouts of reconstructive surgery, she worked in his operating theater, where the patients paid no mind to her disfigurement.

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But one thing we know is true: being a mother is a tough job whether you spend your days cleaning house and wrangling kids in and out of multiple carpools, play dates and activities or in a conference room, court room or operating theater and only see the little buggers on nights and weekends.

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"I think I was operating under a misapprehension that theater was incredibly cool, " she said.

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Outside of years of practice, is there an innate ability in some of us to just pick up a smartphone, laptop, tablet or home theater remote and know how to drive because we know what kind of processors and operating systems are between us and what needs to be done?

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