operation, n.All

An Operation takes hours to perform and years to describe.

The Operation's most important result is always a live patient.

The Operation is over when the patient is eating a cheese-burger and can't remember your name.

An Operation is an assault on a fellow human being—legalised, but nonetheless an assault. In a sense, today the license to kill is given by society only to surgeons.

An Operation is something you haven't fully recovered from until you've made your last payment.