Talk:Surgery

Wiki Education assignment: Technical and Scientific Communication

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ekeller25 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Ekeller25 (talk) 14:19, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello. My name is Emma Keller. I edited this article for a college class. I am a nursing major and I plan to eventually become a CRNA so I am very interested in surgery and recovery. I added information about ambulation as a postoperative method. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekeller25 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Elective surgery into Surgery

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To not merge given WP:TOOBIG. Klbrain (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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This article is confusing in that it is about (and is titled) Elective Surgery and also discusses urgent/emergency surgery. The sparse information on this page could be put into the Surgery article instead where the distinction between Elective and Emergency can be made more clearly/elegantly. Xxavyer (talk) 22:02, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. The surgery article is already very long and these are already independently notable concepts. The elective surgery article simply has room for expansion and improvement. Tom (LT) (talk) 12:07, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

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History India section

I am changing this paragraph:

Remains from the early Harappan periods of the Indus Valley civilization (c. 3300 BC) show evidence of teeth having been drilled dating back 9,000 years. Sushruta Samhita is one of the oldest known surgical texts and its period is usually placed around 1200–600 BC. It describes in detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments, as well as procedures for various forms of cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery and rhinoplasty.

to:

9,000 year old skeletal remains of a prehistoric individual from the Indus River valley show evidence of teeth having been drilled. Sushruta Samhita is one of the oldest known surgical texts and its period is usually placed in the first millennium BCE. It describes in detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments, as well as procedures for various forms of cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery and rhinoplasty.

reasons:

1. The drilled teeth dates to a period way before urban indus civilisation flourished. "9000 year old" and "3300 BCE" in the same sentence is quite contradictory.
2. The Sushruta Samhita has been edited multiple time and the final form have been as late as first millennium of common era.

ChandlerMinh (talk) 14:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Pompeii

Why is the Pompeii House of the surgeon not mentioned in the history section? excavated finds of from here has revealed a wide variety sophisticated surgical instruments. also recently a 1900 year old Roman burial of surgeon was discovered from Hungary. ChandlerMinh (talk) 14:58, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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