1. Provide the title of your story or series and the names of the journalists involved.
"Dr. Timothy Miller" by Lorenzo Benet.
2. List date(s) this work was published or aired.
Nov. 8, 2010.
3. Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
If there is a single heartbreaking reminder of the costs of war, it lies in the burned and maimed faces of the young men and women injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2007 Dr. Timothy Miller, a prominent plastic surgeon at UCLA Medical Center, has devoted his skills to helping these soldiers heal, physically and emotionally, by restoring their faces — often feature by feature over multiple surgeries. As co-founder of the nonprofit Operation Mend, Dr. Miller and his team have performed some 150 operations on more than 30 wounded warriors, with impressive results that his patients say helped them start their lives anew. Reported by Lorenzo Benet and photographed by Joe Pugliese, with a moving companion video for our iPAD app, our story on Dr. Miller took the reader through the painstaking step-by-step process of rebuilding Marine Staff Sergeant Octavio Sanchez's face while hammering home the pain, loss and hope of the those who return from war forever changed. "Because of Dr. Miller," Sanchez told People, "I feel like a human being again." And because of our story, millions of readers were treated to a glimpse of the inspiring, and transformative, work of one special doctor.
4. Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
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5. Explain types of human sources used.
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6. Results (if any).
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7. Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
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8. Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
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