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Keith Miller, a 31-year-old supervisor of fill operations in the clinical production unit of Berlex, the US affiliate of Schering AG Germany, never imagined his nearly 2-year-old twins would end up in body casts.

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Keith Miller, a 31-year-old supervisor of fill operations in the clinical production unit of Berlex, the US affiliate of Schering AG Germany, never imagined his nearly 2-year-old twins would end up in body casts. The girls were born with mirror-image cases of hip dysplasia, a dislocation of the hip bone.

Madeline, who was diagnosed in December 2004, was the first of his daughters to have surgery. By the time the ordeal is over, she'll have spent three months in a cast. His other daughter Natalie will have surgery this spring and wear a cast for six weeks, after which Miller expects to resume his usual schedule.

Keith Miller

Miller requested time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act to help his wife Carolyn with the toddlers. Although it meant reducing his usual four-day workweek to just two, the Concord, Calif., resident never worried that his job might be in ...

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