Imagine a doctor rolling a patient into surgery saying, 'If I didn't have to operate on people, I'd like my job a lot more.'

设想一下，一位医生将病人推进手术室时对他说：如果我不需要给病人做手术的话，我会更热爱我的工作。

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The point is it that you do not want to "operate on a sick patient."

这里的要点是，您并不希望“对病恹恹的人进行手术”。

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We will operate on any patient who has the need, prophylactic or elective, or done on patients who don't have any ulceration so they have deformity.

我们对任何需要的患者进行手术，预防性或选择性，或对没有任何溃疡但有畸形的患者进行手术。

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D'Amico will not operate on a patient who expresses such a sentiment.

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In many places, the permission to remove tissues is combined with the permission to operate on the same consent form to be signed either by the patient or, if a child, the parents.

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