Health / B2

SURJ-uh-n/ˈsɜːdʒən/

A surgeon is a doctor who performs operations: a consultant surgeon; heart surgeon. Doctor is wider; GP is a general practitioner. Name the consultant surgeon in the case study. Mix-up: surgery is the treatment, room, or MP’s advice session (already in the dictionary). Do not call a GP a surgeon without operative work.

Meaning

A doctor who performs operations.

Examples

• “Name the consultant surgeon in the case study, not a generic “hospital worker”.”
• “A field surgeon featured in the war source, which is the military-medicine sense.”

Good to know

a heart / brain / consultant surgeon; surgical (adjective). Place/treatment: surgery. Trap: calling every doctor a surgeon. Health and history. Operates, not any clinician.

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