surgery, n.All

Surgery is what a surgeon practices. An operation is what a surgeon performs.

Surgery is a plumber's art while the practice of medicine is a thinker's art.

Surgery is an adjunct, more or less valuable to the diagnostician.

Surgery is an operation that often enables the patient to live, but more often enables the surgeon to live.

Surgery is a field in which you're nobody unless you have at least as many enemies as friends.

Surgery is the attempted repair, removal, replacement or rearrangement of uncooperative innards, occasionally necessitating the disposal of the patient (see MALPRACTICE) .

Octopi are so intelligent that some countries have made it illegal to perform surgery on one without anesthesia.

Surgery is only two thing: cut and sew.

Surgery is a field in which it is better to be lucky than good, and the better you are, the luckier you become.