She went on full alert if he so much as used a stapler.

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So in the US version, a stapler does get embedded into jelly.

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All rooms are equipped with free wireless Internet access, and the hotel provides a complimentary executive basket that includes post-it notes and a stapler.

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Use the grasper to pick up the finger-size appendix, fire the stapler across its base and across the vessels feeding it, drop the severed organ into a plastic bag, and pull it out.

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When the stapler hit the wall, I had been in the operating room for more than four hours, struggling to remove a diseased segment of colon from someone I'll call Mr. Baker, a 330-pound middle-aged man.

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