738: Incision

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Incision

Title text: At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs.

Explanation

Operation_(game) is a board game wherein one attempts to remove the organs of a patient with a pair of tweezers. The game is notoriously hard, because of the fact that the organs are quite small, and because if one bumps the side of the patient, a buzzer sounds and the patient's nose lights up. Players generally consider the buzzer quite annoying.

In the comic, a child swallows the buzzer, and the joke lies in the similarity between the game and actual surgery when the buzzer is brought into the mix. The title text brings this further by describing an incident where the doctor ended up removing several organs (the object of the game, but obviously not a good idea in real life).

Transcript

[Two doctors wearing surgical masks are standing over a prone patient. One of them is poking the patient's chest.] Doctor: I'm making the incision above the left - BZZZZT! Doctor: Augh! October 8th, 2004: A child swallows an "Operation" buzzer, leading to the single most difficult surgery ever performed.

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Discussion

Elucidated on the aspects of the game a bit more. Thokling (talk) 10:39, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Morale of the tittle text, don't mess with former operation players. (Messing with former COD players, on the other hand, is perfectly okay:))Dontknow (talk) 04:05, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Possibly a reference to how both the game and actual surgery, especially while distracted? User: HelloWorld