The phrase "operate on him" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to perform a surgical procedure on someone. This phrase is typically used when talking about a medical operation or surgery. For example: - The doctors will operate on him tomorrow to remove the tumor. - The surgeon successfully operated on him to repair his broken leg. - The patient was nervous about the operation, but the doctors assured him that they would operate on him with the utmost care.
He was very ill, and there was really no safe place to operate on him," said Ford.
Doctors at the hospital in New Orleans where Hazeltine was being treated planned to operate on him Thursday evening, Champagne said.
She said she chuckled when he asked her to remind the doctors to administer anesthetics if they were going to operate on him.
In a class discussion of the desirability of the extra-time option, a young man turned to the class and asked everyone to raise his hand if he wanted a heart surgeon to operate on him who had been awarded extra time on his exams.
Even so, Nott told me, "when someone comes in Red, the surgeon must ask, 'Do I have enough resources to operate on him?' If I don't, the patient is going to go into the Black Zone," which means he's going to die, and there's no point wasting supplies to try to save him.
Perhaps his career was best summarized by a New Yorker cartoon in which a patient looks at the surgeon preparing to operate on him and demands, "How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" Correction: October 16, 2003, Thursday An article in late editions yesterday about a party in honor of George Plimpton, who died on Sept. 26, misspelled the given name of a novelist who attended.
The doctor who operated on him was also one of the first people on the scene of the accident.
Surgeons operated on him overnight.
They operated on him, and when he woke up he didn't have a voice".
A telephone call to Doctor Abdala Moura the Brazilian ophthalmic surgeon who operated on him in Houston brought reassurance.
Surgeons operated on him Oct. 3, removing a 16-inch section of his colon and 36 lymph nodes.
