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Though the hernia repair (herniorrhaphy) requires general anesthesia and is not "minor surgery," both the operations that Johnson needs are low-risk procedures. Because the patient is the President, however, his operating room will be filled with a reinforced brigade of topnotch physicians and surgeons. > Vice Admiral George G. Burkley, 64, a specialist in administration and in internal medicine, is the President's resident physician in the White House. > James C. Cain, 53, a Mayo Clinic internist, is a Texas-born buddy of the President and his longtime but long-range personal physician. >Kenneth D. Devine, 49, is a Mayo Clinic plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist (meaning ear-and-throat specialist). > Wilbur J. Gould, 47, from Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, is the otolaryngologist who has been looking down the President's throat since August. >George A. Hallenbeck, 51, is the Mayo Clinic general surgeon specializing in gastroenterology who took out the President's gall bladder. > J. Willis Hurst, 46, now of Atlanta, is the ex-Navy cardiologist who cared for the President during and after his 1955 heart attack. > Edward Paul Didier, 41, from the Mayo Clinic, is the anesthesiologist who directed the anesthesia during the gallbladder operation.