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* QuackDoctor: A "doctor" whose medical legitimacy is quite questionable.
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* PlasticBitch: A character has undergone plastic surgery (possibly many times) as a sign they're vain or unpleasant. And rich.
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An index of surgical tropes.

Autopsy tropes don't qualify. They deserve their own index.

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[[index]]
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'''Related indexes:'''
+ ArtisticLicenseMedicine
+ DoctorIndex
+ HealingAndCuringTropes
+ HospitalTropes
+ {{Indexitis}}
+ InjuryTropes
+ MedicalTreatmentTropes
]
* BackAlleyDoctor: A doctor with no medical license.
* BrainTransplant: Swapping brains is as easy as changing a battery.
* EasySexChange: Unrealistically fast and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin easy sex change]].
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: The performance of a tracheotomy is PlayedForDrama in fiction.
* LikeASurgeon: Characters who aren't surgeons act like they are, performing something that is not surgery.
* {{Lobotomy}}: Taking care of a being's brain to change their behavior.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Plastic surgery being portrayed unrealistically.
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Flagrantly careless surgery that still manages to get positive results (mostly).
* OpenHeartDentistry: A doctor has to perform an operation that's outside of their competence zone.
* OrganTheft: Stealing people's organs via surgery.
* PsychicSurgery: The power to reach inside you and rip out the bad parts as a MagicAntidote.
* RoadsideSurgery: A proper hospital room isn't always available, so surgery must be done wherever is available.
* RupturedAppendix: A character comes down with appendicitis and needs their appendix out.
* SelfSurgery: There's no one to do your surgery except yourself.
* SkipTheAnesthetic: A person chooses not to have painkillers before a procedure.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Mad scientists tend to keep their victims strapped to operating tables.
* SurgicalImpersonation: Somebody gets reconstructive surgery that gives them a certain person's face.
* TheTonsillitisEpisode: An episode where a character gets tonsillitis.
* TraumaticCSection: A baby is crudely/violently torn out of the mother's womb.
* WeCanRebuildHim: A badly injured character returns as a {{cyborg}}.
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: In fiction, the first thing you need to do to treat a gunshot wound is to get the bullet out. '''Warning:''' This is usually the worst thing you could do in real life.
* YouWontFeelAThing: Except you will.

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