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surgeon

[sur-juhn] / ˈsɜr dʒən /


NOUN
medic
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NOUN
medic
Synonyms




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James Gallagher visits a private clinic to find out about about the procedure, meets a man who has had it done, and chats to a surgeon who says he is dealing with the consequences when it goes wrong.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

In addition, half of the six UK heart and lung transplantation centres have lost their top surgeon in the past two years, as the medics seek opportunities abroad.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

And yet, we’re the first generation to receive a formal advisory on parental stress from the surgeon general.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Barry chimes in gloomily, “I’m a surgeon and I can’t afford to buy a house.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

"I swapped two cysts for two scars on the ribs," he said, adding that he still has a cyst on his liver, which surgeons decided not to remove.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

In several markets reviewed by Elevance, surgeons performing spinal procedures are typically reimbursed $7,000 to $12,000, while out-of-network neurologists remotely monitoring them are winning upwards of $40,000 in arbitration.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

It’s hard not to feel some kind of sympathy for Max, who sustained a severe brain injury while he was incarcerated that required surgeons to install a metal plate in his skull.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

"Many beauticians often have a little too much freedom. They think they have learned and, without being surgeons, sometimes perform surgical procedures," Kyrgyz plastic surgeon Iskender Kachkinbayev told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Initially, the surgeons hadn't wanted to operate on Garfield to search for the bullet.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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