Timeline for What do you call a building, or rooms within it, where doctors see their patients?
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| May 12, 2016 at 15:16 | comment | added | user126158 | @Kris because there is no other commonly understood and unambiguous word for "treatment by incision", whereas consultation is, well, consultation, regardless of where or by whom it is performed. You can't co-op the particular word into a general sense, it is simply not useful to do that. Use the general word that already exists, for its many uses. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 14:08 | answer | added | mb21 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | WS2 | @Kris I note your remarks. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 11:42 | comment | added | Kris | Obviously you are still on that same wavelength. Please get the gist of my comment. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 9:03 | comment | added | WS2 | @Kris But OED sense 2a is not about any form of 'treatment'. It concerns either the name of the building, or a treatment session involving any number of patients - e.g. morning surgery was very busy today. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 8:55 | comment | added | WS2 | @Oldcat None of the OED examples refer to 'the act of hacking someone up'. The two meanings of surgery to which 2a relates are as the name of the building where doctors see their patients, and as a session of seeing patients (which may simply involve looking in their throats and asking them to say ah!) For some reason, and this is a new discovery to me, these two senses of surgery are not used in America. I do seem to recall from my time in Australia that they used surgery in the same way we do. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 6:22 | comment | added | Kris | 2. Why not set aside the notion that surgery is about and only about "treatment by incision" which it is not? | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 6:16 | comment | added | Kris | 1. What is the question? Is it about the word surgery, as the body of the question seems to suggest, or about a term for the MI Room? Can you be more specific? | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 5:53 | history | edited | Brian Hitchcock |
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| Jun 16, 2015 at 1:21 | comment | added | Mitch | Note that 'the surgery', whether as a doctor's office or anything else, is just not used in AmE. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 0:57 | comment | added | Oldcat | About half of your examples are not using surgery in the sense of a room, but in the sense of the act of hacking someone up. | |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 21:55 | history | edited | WS2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 21:13 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/610555722552725504 | ||
| Jun 15, 2015 at 21:00 | answer | added | Marc | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 20:22 | answer | added | senyb | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 19:12 | answer | added | Alex Henrie | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 18:56 | history | edited | WS2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 18:50 | history | asked | WS2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |