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Ärende: Surgery?
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-=> Glen Jamieson wrote to Nancy Backus <=-

NB> Of course, if one's GP also delivers babies, the first appointment
NB> could be off as well...  ;)  I've had that a few times with my GYN
NB> doctor... :)

GJ> My local GP just does surgery work.

Is this another case of two peoples separated by a common language?

In the US surgery has come to mean "cutting on people's bodies". Back
around the turn of the 19th century surgery was used to refer to the
office where the croaker saw his patients and most of the cutting on
people was limited to lancing the occasional boil.

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Surgery: The word "surgery" has multiple meanings. It is the branch of
medicine concerned with diseases and conditions which require or are
amenable to operative procedures. Surgery is the work done by a
surgeon. By analogy, the work of an editor wielding his pen as a
scalpel is s form of surgery. A surgery in England (and some other
countries) is a physician's or dentist's office.

To define "surgery" merely as "an operation" (as one dictionary does)
is rather radical surgery. An earlier entry to "surgery" in this
dictionary was similarly mechanistic: "Surgery can involve cutting,
abrading, suturing, laser or otherwise physically changing body tissues
and organs."

The word "surgery" took a path so tortuous as to conceal its origins.
It began with the Greek "cheirourgia" which combined "cheir" (the hand)
and "ergon" (work) and meant "handwork, work done with the hands." The
Greek "cheirourgia" was taken over by the Romans as "chirurgia" and was
further transformed in France about in 1171 to "cirurgie." (In French,
surgery is now "chirurgerie.") By 1387 Chaucer could write in The
Canterbury Tales:

With us ther was a doctour of phisik;
In al this world ne was the noon hym lik,
To speke of phisik and of surgerye.

http://www.medicinenet.com

sur·gery (s?r'j?r e)

noun pl. surgeries -·geries

1.
  1. the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by manual or
instrumental
     operations, as the removal of diseased parts or tissue by cutting
  2. an operation of this kind
  3. the branch of medicine dealing with this

2. the operating room of a surgeon or hospital

3. Brit. a doctor's office

Etymology: ME < OFr cirurgie, contr. of cirurgerie < L chirurgia < Gr
cheirourgia, a working with the hands, handicraft, skill < cheir (gen.
cheiros), the hand + ergein, to work

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley
Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

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I suspect you are using the #3 definition cited in Webster's.

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