Surgery is an operation that involves a doctor. The doctor helps
his patients by taking out, changing or fixing parts of the
human body. Doctors who do surgeries are called surgeons. Many
surgeons are experts in certain areas; for example, a surgeon
that operates on bones is called an orthopaedic (orth-o-pae-dic)
surgeon. Operating rooms have to be very clean places. The
doctors and nurses go to great lengths to keep the room clean
where the surgery is done. Regular cleaning of the room and its
tools is done to keep everything clean and germ-free. Everyone
in the operating room must wear special clothes, hats, shoes,
gowns, gloves and masks that are clean and germ free. The only
people allowed in the operating rooms are the doctors and nurses
as well as the patient too. When people have operations they are
normally put to sleep with anaesthesia. When the patients are
asleep, they cannot feel anything. In recent years, many
patients that cannot get the required surgery in their own
country, or find the costs t