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Article: DOCTORS DISCUSS SURGERY GARCIAPARRA STILL OPPOSES PROCEDURE

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FORT MYERS, Fla. - After an independent review of an MRI and X- rays on Nomar Garciaparra's injured right wrist, Garciaparra's doctors have raised the possibility of surgery.

Garciaparra said yesterday he is opposed to surgery as anything but a final resort, and also asserted that Red Sox medical director Arthur Pappas raised "half-truths" about a possible link between the injury and the shortstop's offseason training.

Garciaparra said Dr. Norman Zemel, a noted hand specialist in Los Angeles who

has treated Kevin Brown of the Dodgers and Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, concurred with Sox team physician Bill Morgan's diagnosis and

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