Talk:Elective surgery

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Larry Hockett in topic Er, huh?

Mistaken inferences from the term "elective"

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Can we make it clear that "elective" does not mean unnecessary in the case of abortion? All scheduled surgery, that is, non-emergency-dept. surgery, no matter how necessary and urgent it is, is generally described as "elective" surgery. It should not be used to claim, as some anti-abortion groups do, that all abortions at some hospital or other were frivolous and "for convenience": because they were "elective." -Monado (talk) 04:27, 19 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

non-elective surgery

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I want to point this somewhere, but I don't know where. Do we have an article for the opposite here? Surgeries that patients do not elect to have? While emergency surgery may qualify as a form of this, it would not be the only type. If someone has a limb amputated without consent, for example, when they are not needing it, it would be both non-elective and non-emergency. Is there an article where I can point this? If not, perhaps we should have one? Ranze (talk) 03:39, 20 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Er, huh?

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"... the peccant part ..." ?? Pretty sure nobody but English Lit PhD's will know what that means lol Suggest rephrasing for clarity.

Peccant means erring, or sinful. Surely not what was meant. Someone needs to determine what IS meant, and change it. 2604:2000:F64D:FC00:60DF:F1D1:1343:4A9C (talk) 15:45, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Oops, that's me. WordwizardW (talk) 15:46, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Some dictionaries list another definition for peccant (diseased), but I haven't heard that usage despite working in U.S. healthcare settings for ~25 years. I adjusted "peccant part" to "problem". Feel free to revert if that's not helpful. Larry Hockett (Talk) 16:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Overall article

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I'd like to improve this page: organize it better, clean up the grammar, clarify risks, and add links to the Liposuction and other pages. Juliet Sabine (talk) 03:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

The Lasik reference sounds like an ad. It's a dangerous surgery, with many terrible outcomes. Detroit meteorologist, Jessica Starr, killed herself in December of 2018 after coming forward with problems from Lasik. I suggest changing the references that sound like ads. Juliet Sabine (talk) 03:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply