If a man suffering from gallstones went to a textbook of surgery to study his disease, he. would find things like this: "Whereas in cases of simple cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is the operation of choice, in cases of acute calculous cholecystitis cholecystectomy is to be preferred." In plainer English: In cases of simple gallstones, it is best to remove the stones and leave the gall bladder alone; but if a patient has an inflamed gall bladder as well as stones, it is wiser to remove both stones and bladder together.
Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon...
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