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Meet the plastic surgeon who moonlights as an animal doctor

A bald eagle

Plastic surgeon Dr. Coleen Stice’s operating schedule Friday will look a bit different than normal: Instead of a sterile surgical suite, she’ll be working at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. Instead of shaving away hair, she’ll have to deal with feathers. Oh, and the patient will be a bald eagle.

This unlikely doctor-patient relationship made headlines after Stice, who lives in Omaha, performed a

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