[calcowgirl]

And just to be complete, the surgery he did have was both to remove a fragment of the bullet, AND to explore and categorize the extent of the injuries so the doctor could determine the correct course of treatment. Your statement was incomplete.

They took a cystogram and urethragram and performed a cystoscopy. Neither of these are surgical.

Perhaps you can point me to some support for your comment? In the interest of "completeness" and all.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I'm not going to get hung up on your semantic argument. He was in surgery. There were two things to be done. That the one could be done without being in surgery doesn't change the fact that two things were done in surgery, or I guess since you are being hypercritical in the surgical room while the patient was under surgical care and anesthesia.

The testimony is clear on this point. I don't know if anesthesia was necessary for the tests they performed, nor do I really care.

volume%208.pdf, starting from page 187.

Q. Okay. And could you explain how he presented, what the 11 purpose of the treatment was?
12 A. I was actually only involved when they got to the operating
13 room. And reading the chart at that point, knowing that there
14 was an injury, gunshot, through the buttocks. And the main
15 reason he was there was to look at the genitourinary system and
16 to retrieve what felt, and by imaging, was a round that was
17 lodged in his right thigh.

according to the doctor, the MAIN reason he was in the surgical room having an operation was to look at the genitourinary sustem AND to retrieve a round.

So long as you agree that these two things happened, I don't really care about your petty argument over the term "surgery".