Surgeons are the tailors, the plumbers, the carpenters -- some would say the butchers -- of the medical world: cutting, reshaping, reforming, bypassing, fixing.
Os cirurxiáns son os xastres, os fontaneiros, os carpinteiros, --alguén diría que os carniceiros-- do mundo da medicina: cortando, remodelando, corrixindo, derivando, arranxando...