Talk:Elective surgery

Mistaken inferences from the term "elective"
Can we make it clear that "elective" does not mean unnecessary in the case of abortion? All scheduled surgery, that is, non-emergency-dept. surgery, no matter how necessary and urgent it is, is generally described as "elective" surgery. It should not be used to claim, as some anti-abortion groups do, that all abortions at some hospital or other were frivolous and "for convenience": because they were "elective." -Monado (talk) 04:27, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

non-elective surgery
I want to point this somewhere, but I don't know where. Do we have an article for the opposite here? Surgeries that patients do not elect to have? While emergency surgery may qualify as a form of this, it would not be the only type. If someone has a limb amputated without consent, for example, when they are not needing it, it would be both non-elective and non-emergency. Is there an article where I can point this? If not, perhaps we should have one? Ranze (talk) 03:39, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Er, huh?
"... the peccant part ..." ?? Pretty sure nobody but English Lit PhD's will know what that means lol  Suggest rephrasing for clarity.
 * Peccant means erring, or sinful. Surely not what was meant. Someone needs to determine what IS meant, and change it. 2604:2000:F64D:FC00:60DF:F1D1:1343:4A9C (talk) 15:45, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Oops, that's me. WordwizardW (talk) 15:46, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Some dictionaries list another definition for peccant (diseased), but I haven't heard that usage despite working in U.S. healthcare settings for ~25 years. I adjusted "peccant part" to "problem". Feel free to revert if that's not helpful. Larry Hockett (Talk) 16:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Overall article
I'd like to improve this page: organize it better, clean up the grammar, clarify risks, and add links to the Liposuction and other pages. Juliet Sabine (talk) 03:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)


 * The Lasik reference sounds like an ad. It's a dangerous surgery, with many terrible outcomes. Detroit meteorologist, Jessica Starr, killed herself in December of 2018 after coming forward with problems from Lasik. I suggest changing the references that sound like ads. Juliet Sabine (talk) 03:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)