Lankan surgeon removes New York State governor’s appendix
New York-- A Sri Lankan surgeon made it to the pages of the New York Times last week for performing a successful operation on New York State Governor George Pataki. Dr Wiji Ratnathicam was the senior attending surgeon when Pataki checked in at the Hudson Valley Hospital Centre in Westchester County in New York.

"The governor is in good spirits," Dr Ratnathicam said, hours after the Governor's appendix was removed during emergency surgery. "He is a little tired, as all of us are, because we've been up all night."

As part of a husband-and-wife team at the hospital, Dr Ratnathicam's wife Josephine was the anesthesiologist. The two Sri Lankan physicians have been living in the US since the mid 1970s. Pataki, who received a call in hospital from President Bush wishing him well, was brought into hospital around 1 a.m. after complaining of abdominal pain.

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