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   Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🦃 (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:53:18 JST Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🦃

   Dear English,

   The term “elective surgery” should be replaced with “scheduled surgery”.

   Thank you for your kind consideration of this matter.

   Sincerely,

   A Concerned Medical Editor

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     Unless you know the jargon, when you heard during the pandemic that hospitals had to cancel elective surgeries, you probably got the impression they were canceling “optional” surgeries

     But most of those operations were very necessary (e.g., cancer resection). They are called “elective” because the surgeon can choose the time (cf. emergency surgery), but the impression is that the choice is whether to do the surgery at all

     I think this is bad for patient understanding and public communication🤓