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surgeon

[sur-juhn] / ˈsɜr dʒən /


NOUN
medic
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NOUN
medic
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"Things are moving in the right direction, but we are still well behind," says Prof Hussain Alnajjar, a consultant urological surgeon at University College London Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic London.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

Liggett Group LLC, where the court agreed in part with the tobacco industry that the congressionally mandated surgeon general’s warning about cigarettes already superseded any state-based failure-to-warn claim.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

In May, an American surgeon who contracted Ebola in the DRC was flown to Germany for treatment.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

“There’s a significant amount of medicine that is evidence-based, it’s rules-based, it’s algorithmic,” said Adam Oskowitz, a vascular surgeon who is Doctronic’s co-chief executive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

In 1896, English surgeon Stephen Paget says that heart surgery is impossible.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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